If the state lab can provide whatever information is needed that will permit stipulation, then Judge Boyce is willing to expedite another hearing so the issues regarding consumptive DNA testing can be resolved quickly.
Most interesting is what information is revealed in the State's recent response to the defendant's motion regarding that evidence.
From State's response to Defendant's Motion to Preserve DNA Evidence: "...On April 12, 2021, the State received the results of DNA analysis of debris found on tools that were seized from Chad Daybell's property. The State also learned that some samples obtained from the examined items were possibly suitable for DNA analysis but that those samples were of such size and quantity that the testing process itself would consume the entirety of the sample(s). On April 18, 2021 the State received another report from the State Lab regarding a possible blood sample from an apartment that would require consumptive testing to test the DNA..."
I vaguely remember LE serving a SW on CD's property and entering the home as well as a small shed or silo and the barn behind the house. IIRC, they seized some long-handled yard tools at that time. This was the first week of January 2020, about three weeks before a search warrant was served on CD and LVD in Hawaii and before LVD was ordered to produce the children to the Court within five days. (There is a video at the end of the article and about midway through, that video shows the officers in and around the shed and barn.). The report says 43 items were taken into evidence from the home and property. I don't know, but presume the tools referred to in the State's recent response were taken that day.
Police conclude search at Daybell home - East Idaho News
If so, I assume DNA evidence on the tools could possibly indicate:
(1) CD and AC used those tools (e.g., rakes, or hoes, or shovels) to stir the contents of the fire they had going to destroy TR's remains, or
(2) they used those tools to transfer the destroyed remains from the fire pit to the pet cemetery, where the remains were buried, or
(3) if CD and AC had any of those tools laying around the fire pit when "CD shot a raccoon" (as he texted his wife he was doing on the day after TR was last seen), TR's DNA evidence might have transferred from CD's target to the tools as a result of the shot.
In any case, any one of those possibilities probably accounts for how angry Prior appears these days. Any other ideas?
ETA: I also wonder whether the "possible blood sample from an apartment" might have been collected from the second crawl space LE returned to investigate after new renters occupied LVD's former apartment.