STORY: "Boney's ex-girlfriend's testimony in Camm trial prompts defence call for mistrial," by reporter Gordon Boyd, published jointly by the News and Tribune and Wave 3 News on September 17, 2013.
SUB-HEADING: "blood-splatter expert to resume testimony on Wednesday."
GIST: "Testimony regarding spatter prompted an early recess Tuesday afternoon.
Jurors had heard from blood-pattern specialist and crime scene analyst
Tom Bevel for about twenty minutes, when Camm’s team objected to a
series of photographs. Jurors then spent almost an hour outside court, while defense attorneys
tried to exclude what they claim is a new theory that lacks supporting
evidence. “Mr. Bevel has seen blood where nobody has seen it,” Kammen claimed.
“It’s all just ‘my guess.’ They don’t do it scientifically, they just
come in and spot all this stuff.” Bevel conceded that he’d not tested spots in the Camm’s Ford Bronco to
verify whether they were blood. Prosecutors insisted that Bevel need not
identify whose blood it might be, only that a spot is “consistent with
it being blood.” Camm’s team argued that witnesses presented as
“experts” bear a higher burden of proof."
The entire story can be found at:
http://newsandtribune.com/local/x703116785/Boney-s-ex-girlfriends-testimony-in-Camm-trial-prompts-defense-call-for-mistrial
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