Re: Witness Muddies 'Fatal Vision' Convictions


JonesieCat wrote:
> "Hunter" <buffhunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1134819846.676795.265260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Kris Baker wrote:
> >> "Hunter" <buffhunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:1134713154.656588.297970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> >
> >> > DanaPointe wrote:
> >> >> > The hair under Collette's fingernails that has been sent for DNA
> >> >> > testing is brown.
> >> >> > Mr. MacDonald's hair was blond at the time
> >> >>
> >> >> Wasn't that tested years ago and it turned out to be her own hair?
> >> > ---
> >> > Nope, the test were never done. The government ordered in 1999 that the
> >> > Armed Forces Institute of Pathology as the independent lab to do the
> >> > test. The military is doing the testing, hardly the defense mouth piece
> >> > . The defense has been waiting for results since 1999. Part of the
> >> > delay is the nature of the evidence, but most of the delays was due to
> >> > prosecution foot dragging. The test results are supposed to be released
> >> > by the AFIP in January 2006.
> >> >
> >> > ---->Hunter
> >>
> >> According to a post I just found, on a crimesit, the tests *have* been
> >> completed, the comparisons are in progress right now....and results
> >> due shortly.
> > ----
> > Can you show the link please, or at least tell me the thread's subject
> > title?
> >
> > The test were expected to be completed this month, December 2005, they
> > are due to be published in January 2006.
> >>
> >> There's something important here, though: like in the Ramsey case, the
> >> defense pushes for certain types of testing to be done NOW, knowing that
> >> the
> >> technology isn't good enough yet to give definite results AND that the
> >> testing will destroy the evidence forever.
> >>
> >> IMO, the Army was smart to wait for the technology.
> >>
> >> Kris
> > ---
> > Really? Now it is accused that the defense is pushing for premature
> > test rather than stalling? Interesting. So I guess it is also the
> > defenses fault somehow that all of the biological samples that can be
> > DNA tested aren't being so due to the court's ruling?
> >
> > Only a clear exclusion of Mr. MacDonald can help him. Anything less, an
> > inconclusive result, will keep him in prison. Old DNA technology would
> > very likely be inconclusive. Not a help to MacDonald at all. It is not
> > in Mr. MacDonald's interest to have an inconclusive test if he wants
> > out of prison. Yes new DNA techniques are available for previously
> > untestable or only subject to destructive test that would had destroyed
> > the evidence being tested, but DNA testing, circa 2001 say, would had
> > been good enough for most of the biological evidence.
> >
> > As said above, the test results are due to be published at the end of
> > January of 2006. We will see if that date is kept by the government.
> >
> > ---->Hunter
>
> Oh for Gawd's sake.
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Elaborate please.

---->Hunter

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