hmmm from opening statements, when he was introducing the "Team".... he doesn't actually say he will testify, there are others that are mentioned as part of the "Team" but also not said they would testify. Looking at this, they didn't even say Beasley would testify.
So we built a team, the first person that you may hear his name, he may testify , is Gary Robertson, he was our investigator on this case. 34 years with San Bernardino Sheriff Dept... San Bernardino City Police, 20 years as a homicide detective or Sergeant of that team, investigated well over 500 homicides.
We also brought in Suzanne Serdahely, who is seated with Mr. Merritt, she's 27 years as a private investigator, involved in at least 24 death penalty cases in a serious manner, she had minor interactions with other one's, but that's what she does.
We saw that there is a lot of information about the crime scene, so we wanted to get the person that we knew about crime scenes, so we got Randy, or Randolph Beasley involved. He has spent 30 years with the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department as a crime scene specialist, a trainer for many of the people who you will hear testify in this trial.
We then elicited a DNA expert, who is Suzanna Ryan, she has 20 years experience as a DNA analyst, she has a Masters in Science and Forensic Science. She will be offering her opinion on different parts of the DNA, she will be explaining the DNA process to you. She made some observations which helped in our direction for our investigation into what really happened.
We have a Vlad Jovanovic, who is our cell tower expert. We wanted somebody that knew cells, who knew cell networks. He has a Bachelor's of Science, Masters of Science, PhD in Electrical Engineering. He spent 35 years working in communication networks, 25 of that in cellular networks, where he optimized them. Checked them to see if they were working properly, developed them, tested them. He knows the towers and how they work and what they can tell you.
We next knew this was a financial case so we contacted a Dennis Shogren who’s a forensic accountant. He had been an accountant for 20 years. His primary purpose is he’s a forensic accountant in trusts and wills, he likes to see where money goes, where it’s spent. It’s funny we really needed him cos this is a financial case but the government never looked for an accountant to tell them where the money went. You’re gonna learn about that. Our expert gave them a report, they hired one now. I guess we’ll see where that goes.
And then we also went to Elluma Discovery which is a computer science firm, their expertise is computer forensic analysis. You’ll be hearing from them. The things that you’ll hear about, what happens on the computers, who’s doing what, they went down to the code and they’re going to tell you exactly, during the testimony, what they see.
