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To: Bonaparte
2/4, 2/5 and 2/6 also got down to freezing at night, with mild temperatures at midday.

As I recall the OJ trial, much more time was devoted to "educating" the jury as to the soundness of the "science," and its "reliability." On the one hand, one could say: "So what?" That jury didn't care a bit, for science.

But seriously, it seems like the prosecution failed to drive home, the degree of reliability, for hair, fiber, blood and DNA. Likewise, he failed to question the bug guy, as to the range of error for weather as a variable.

The jury is left to decide, what weight to give to one bit of physical evidence, versus another.

Both sides got the bug guy to make a statement, which serves their case; leaving it inconclusive, as I heard it (therefore both sides can quote the statement he made, favoring their position).

As I view the case today, I predict a hung jury. Some jurors will see the physical evidence against DW, and not be able to believe all of the items are just a "coincidence." Maybe it would fall under a calculation of "compound probability" (if that is the correct statistical term).

Those voting to acquit or not guilty, will see the chance, individually, for each item of physical evidence to have occured, and for DW to not have killed the 7 year old girl, used his SUV and MH to transport her, gotten her hair, blood, DNA and fibers all around him.

688 posted on 07/11/2002 2:11:56 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: truth_seeker
In response to your post. Although I have my opinion about DW's guilt/non-guilt, as I am sure you and every other poster on these threads has,

I THINK YOU ARE COMPLETELY CORRECT, as far as how the jury will see this and what the might do.

And what the JURY DECIDES, will be the bottom line to this case.

744 posted on 07/11/2002 7:30:41 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: truth_seeker
Thankyou for your thoughtful and courteous post, ts. And I have to agree with many of your observations. IMO, the physical and other evidence against the defendant is too coincidental for chance, which means that he either committed the crime or somebody went to a lot of trouble to frame him, courting considerable risk of discovery. Since I know very little about the jurors, I won't even hazard a guess about their verdict.
757 posted on 07/11/2002 10:18:44 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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