STORY: "Witness for David Camm's defence disputes blood splatter evidence," by reporter Charlie White, published by the Courier-Journal on September 26, 2013.
GIST: "David Camm’s defense team Thursday called its first forensic expert, Barie Goetz, who contested blood-spatter findings presented by the prosecution. Goetz, a consultant who is retired from the lab services division of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said the blood of 5-year-old Jill Camm found on her father’s T-shirt appears to have come from him brushing against her while attempting to lift his son from the SUV. Goetz, who admitted blood-stain patterns are subjective, said he based his opinion on the locations of the stains on top of the fibers. He said he also considered the composition of the fabric, which was half cotton and half polyester. Goetz and Camm’s defense — trying to prove the daughter’s blood got onto Camm as he brushed her while extracting his 7-year-old son Brad from the family’s two-door Ford Bronco — re-enacted the scenario with similarly sized people. “After we did the re-enactment, (the transfer theory) was more likely, if not most likely,” Goetz said. The prosecution has built its case largely on expert testimony that spatter stains of Jill’s blood found on Camm’s shirt show he was nearby when she was shot in the family’s Georgetown garage along with Brad and their mother, Kim Camm, 35. Defense attorney Richard Kammen accused prosecution experts Rod Englert and Tom Bevel of drawing premature conclusions about blood spatter in the case and then finding pieces of evidence to fit those conclusions."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130926/NEWS02/309260068/Witness-David-Camm-s-defense-disputes-blood-spatter-findings
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