Thursday, November 17, 2011

More of Mrs Meyers

"Strong evidence that she is the source."
This was said in regards to the blood on vegetation found inside McClish's truck. This is the most definitive language that her lab will use. They would never say outright that X person is the source of X sample, but rather that there is "strong evidence" that they are.

JMM-7#7 : vegetation found with blood in McClish's truck. Locationwas the center of the passenger floorboard. Match for Asha.
REG-15#6A and REG-15#6B both tested the same day. Both match Asha.
TMP311A1 - Vegetation with blood obtained during a tape lift of Ashas backpack. Match for Asha.
JMM-7#9 was tested with a new kit that looks at 15 segments rather than 13. Tested as a match for Asha, this time a 1 in 21 quintillion or 1 in 21,000,000,000,000,000,000 odds.
LW15 - tested positive as Asha's blood.

As the testimony went on, Mrs. Meyers would locate the item number on the diagram of McClish's truck, and write under the evidence item number that it was Ashas blood. The first thing the Defense did on cross examination is remove the diagram of the truck from the stand near the Jury, walk it across the room so that it was near the Defense's table, and he intentionally looked at it, and turned it facing the wall so it could not be seen. This was not unintentional, TW was obviously very conscious of it.

The Defense focused in on the fact that Mrs Meyers was not present for the collection of the evidence. Even though we have already heard sworn testimony from everyone involved in the identification, collection, and shipment of the evidence, to claim there was any sort of manipulation of it by any of the parties involved is ludicrous. Mrs Meyers took detailed photos of each piece of evidence (the packaging it came in, the label, the opening of the package, and the contents of the package) as well as noting the condition of the packages/items received as she got them, it's all in her report.

The Defense also focused in on REG-2#22B, the swab from Asha's steering wheel (bottom) as the results of the tests on the fragments they could uncover could NOT exclude McClish as a source. Indeed the chance that any random Caucasian sampled would be a partial match, as McClish was, is 1 in 130,000. By no means is this enough to say it was his DNA, but the fact that it does not rule him out, when it did exclude Asha's husband Richard, is suspect.

At this point the Jury passed a note asking the Judge if they could set up a fund to help out with one of the Juror's financial troubles caused by serving on the Jury. Not pertinent to the trial perhaps, but it goes to show the attitude of the Jurors.

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  1. This blog has been shut down, I cannot tell why, but the new address is http://michaelmcclishtrial.blogspot.com/

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