Sleuth5
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It seems like one would have to assume that the jury is full of experts on decomp smell, otherwise they already have to take someone else's word that the car smelled like decomp. If that's the case I would rather just take the person's word who says it smells like decomp without having to smell those cans.
I wasn't able to watch today - do they also want to make the jury smell the garbage/trash? Will there be a sample of known decomp to compare this alleged decomp smell to? The jury is not getting paid enough for this...
I don't think the can demo will actually come off. Too prejudicial, likely to find an appellate court that will agree. Besides, if the DT refuses to acknowledge that the body was ever in the car, they will simply contend it's rotten garbage and hence probative of nothing -- thus more prejudicial than probative.
MOO