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6:25 p.m.
Michael Knox, a forensic science and criminology consultant, testified Monday for the defense in Guy Heinze Jr.s' death penalty murder case.
Knox said he formerly was a major case investigator with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and that he reconstructed crime scenes to show what had actually happened. Knox said defense attorney Newell Hamilton Jr.'s office contacted him to review the evidence in the case, for which he is charging about $18,000 including his testimony and courtroom presentation.
Knox said he could examine blood patterns to determine how the blood was deposited where it was found, whether it was dripped from something, "forcefully distributed'' such as from an impact or cast off from a weapon.
The first step is to gather all the evidence and never form an opionion first, he said.
In some investigations, "confirmation bias" occurs in which the tendency is to look for evidence to support the theory and ignore things that are contrary to the theory, he testified.
Was hired by Hamilton's office to review the crime scene and the evidence, Knox said.
"Lots of photographs. I don't how many, but thousands of photographs were taken,'' he testified.
He also received fingerprints, reports from the GBI crime lab "everything we needed," Knox testified.
Knox said he had never interviewed Heinze and saw him for the first time Monday and that what he looks at is physical evidence because talking first with defendants could bias an investigation.
"Physical evidence is the most reliable. We're all human. We all make mistakes,'' he said of the reliabilty of witness statements.
He said he saw no evidence that blood pattern analysis was done in the case.
In a case where eight people were beaten to death, "it absolutely should have been done,'' because it will accurately represent what happened in the case, Knox testified.
Judge Stephen Scarlett recessed court until 8:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/...eard-guy-heinze-jr-say-ill-kill#ixzz2iOmHLuIN
Michael Knox, a forensic science and criminology consultant, testified Monday for the defense in Guy Heinze Jr.s' death penalty murder case.
Knox said he formerly was a major case investigator with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and that he reconstructed crime scenes to show what had actually happened. Knox said defense attorney Newell Hamilton Jr.'s office contacted him to review the evidence in the case, for which he is charging about $18,000 including his testimony and courtroom presentation.
Knox said he could examine blood patterns to determine how the blood was deposited where it was found, whether it was dripped from something, "forcefully distributed'' such as from an impact or cast off from a weapon.
The first step is to gather all the evidence and never form an opionion first, he said.
In some investigations, "confirmation bias" occurs in which the tendency is to look for evidence to support the theory and ignore things that are contrary to the theory, he testified.
Was hired by Hamilton's office to review the crime scene and the evidence, Knox said.
"Lots of photographs. I don't how many, but thousands of photographs were taken,'' he testified.
He also received fingerprints, reports from the GBI crime lab "everything we needed," Knox testified.
Knox said he had never interviewed Heinze and saw him for the first time Monday and that what he looks at is physical evidence because talking first with defendants could bias an investigation.
"Physical evidence is the most reliable. We're all human. We all make mistakes,'' he said of the reliabilty of witness statements.
He said he saw no evidence that blood pattern analysis was done in the case.
In a case where eight people were beaten to death, "it absolutely should have been done,'' because it will accurately represent what happened in the case, Knox testified.
Judge Stephen Scarlett recessed court until 8:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/...eard-guy-heinze-jr-say-ill-kill#ixzz2iOmHLuIN