Casey Anthony trial - Page 4

"Donald, the Italy case is Amanda Knox..... I think that is who you are talking about."

Oops!  My mistake, sorry BE.

I understand that the dogs have to be proofed off of animal remains and things that could cause a dog to indicate that there is something there that isn't.  The bigger picture is this. 

1.  Murder trial

2.  possible death penalty

3.  If you are on a jury and the only thing that the prosicution can say to convict someone is that we think there was a dead body in her trunk because a cadaver K9 alerted to it. 

4.  Is it possible for the dog to make a mistake?  If so how often? 

IS that all the prosecution has?    I would think that there has been chemical and other forensic  analysis of the contents of the trunk to establish that a deceased human had  been there.  I would also think that DNA would connect "whatever that substance is" to the dead child in question.   Otherwise, it could have  been Jimmy Hoffa's body that had been in the trunk. 

I think it boils down to the dog or this Mr. Vass's testimony (which will be presented in the trail). And today I think that Mr. Baez did a good job trying to prove the special interest where Dr. Vass stands a lot to gain if his newley patented Labrador Technology sniff-o-meter gains acceptance in a high profile criminal case. JMO. I guess we'll find out.

Her defense filed a scathing motion today also.   

They also have statements from several individuals saying that there was a horrible smell coming from the trunk of her car.  But nothing actually putting the young girl in the trunk of the car.  They did find hair follicles in the trunk but i think that you can find my kids hair follicles in my car to. 

See I think that she is guilty.  But it has to be proven.  Speculation is not enough to kill someone. 

Mystere

That's what makes this so interesting to me. The Forensics is being used by the defense in this trial to prove it wasn't a body in the trunk, not the prosecution proving it was.  

Something else that is interesting about the whole thing is this.  The carpet sample that was removed from the trunk of the car and placed into some sort of sniff container had no chain of custody nor did it have a specific way in which the sample was to be collected.  The investigation was shotguned and now it is coming back to bite them in the A**

Quote:"They did find hair follicles in the trunk but i think that you can find my kids hair follicles in my car to. "

In the trunk????    My dad often threatened to put us in the trunk, if we didn't behave, but we never actually ended up there.  Hell, even the dog was never put in the trunk, when she was "gassy." 

Mystere good point.  But my car is like a mobile laundry matt sometimes.  And my daughters shed more than my dog it seems like.  I know there has to be some of there hair in the trunk of my car since some of there hoodies and coats are there aswell.  or perhaps a car seat or booster seat that was put into the trunk.  I think that it is reasonable to think that it could have gotten there by getting transferred from something else.  Now if it was someone that supposedly did not know the victim it would be a different story.

Mystere,

Lol.

Guess we'll just have to see how the trial turns out.  I love the armchair forensic and legal experts.  Jwalker, remember the prosecution doesn't try the case in the media, the defense does.  As Mystere stated I'm sure the prosecution has lots of evidence they are not releasing to the media.