Re: What's the Problem?


"Earle Jones" <earle.jones@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:earle.jones-

In my admittedly limited experience serving on juries (two were
heavy criminal cases: Kidnap, robbery, and rape, and four or five
were civil cases: fender benders, personal injury, etc.) I would
say that juries are in general not stupid.

I've just recently sat through the seven week trial of a guy found guilty of
mudering my sister-in-law.

I was very impressed by the jury - not simply because they came to the
correct verdict but because they most of the evidence in the case was
forensic, including DNA, fibre analysis and Cell Site analysis (working out
here mobile phone calls were made ) and they were able to understand and
grasp the significance of the evidence; on a couple of occasions where they
didn't initially fully understand the evidence, they were smart eough to ask
to have it explained better..

The case attracted a lot of publicity because of the vile nature of the
murder by a young man just out of prison on early release for viciously
raping and almost killing another woman and even led to questions being
asked in Parliament - Google "Attracta Harron" if you're interested. Apart
from this, however, the case has created a lot of interest in criminilogy
and forensic fields because of some of the techniques used.

My sister-in-law went missing on 11th December 2003; on the same day a car
was burnt out at the home of the convicted rapist just three miles from
where she went missing. The police suspected him from day one but
examination of the car showed nothing to link it with her.

The following February, the Northern Ireland police brought over two dogs
from the South Yorkshire Police, specially trained in finding tracesof
secretions from dead bodies. When one of the dogs was put into the burnt out
car, he immediately alerted his handler to traces of human remains on a
rubber mat in the back of the car - this was over two months after the car
had been burnt out and saturated with water by the Fire Service who put out
the fire.

The mat was sent to the main forensic lab in Birmingham where traces of
human bood were found and DNA profiled. The initial results of the profiling
were that the odds of the blood not being that of my sister-in-law were 1 in
250,000. As this was still a 'case without a body', the police and
prosecution weren't satisfied with this level of certainty and asked for
further testing. The people in the forensic lab developed a new advanced
test which was able to change the odds to one in a billion.

This new test will now be used to re-investigate other unsolved crimes as
well as new crimes. Also, because of the success in finding the blood,
police forces throughout the UK have been issued with new procedures for
examining burnt out vehicles that are suspected of having been involved in a
crime.

Six weeks after the blood was found, the same two dogs were brought back to
help in a search of the accused man's property. The dogs found my
sister-in-law's body buried in the bank of stream beside the body.

Due to the vital role the dogs played in this case, it is now also planned
to train additional dogs for this type of specialist work.

The case also made legal history in Northern Ireland as it was the first
case where 'previous character' evidence was introduced. This law was
brought in for the UK two years ago and extended to Northern Ireland last
year; it allows the prosecution in serious crime cases to bring in crimes
the defendant has previously been found of where the 'MO' of the crimes are
very similar, which they were in this case.








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