Thank you,
@10ofRods. I really can't take credit here as I simply summarized what LS provided from her news reporter's ears.
From my perspective, at the time of the Preliminary Hearing (PH), the Arrest Affidavit (AA) had not yet been released, and WS and the public didn't really have solid information regarding the unknown DNA evidence recovered.
Personally, at the conclusion of the PH by Twitter, I did not have a clear understanding of the terms "keyboard search" or "partial match" where
match, as used here is meaningless. If one reviews the posts during the PH, I don't think I was alone.
IMO, the testimony by J Cahill did not answer my questions and also did not leave me with any guidance about the unknown DNA from three jurisdictions. It's the primary reason why I've been supportive of Judge Murphy's ruling that the prosecution did not satisfy proof evident pursuant to the Colorado Constitution.
It wasn't until the AA was unsealed and made public by the Court that I think we were truly able to apply science to the true raw data evidence versus the defense's description of the DNA evidence. In other words, I found the defense overpowered the prosecution and/or J Cahill during the testimony on this subject.
Fortunately, the mystery of the unknown DNA recovered was short-lived when on Sept 20, 2021, the documents were unsealed and we could actually apply science to the factual evidence, affirmed in the court documents, and for the first time, clearly understand the unknown DNA was not relevant.
According to the LS's recap, by about November 2021, the defense also had sufficient discovery evidence that the subject unknown DNA recovered here was not only irrelevant but also EXCLUDED.
IMO, this is the only sanctionable offense in this case: a defense attorney knowingly and blatantly lying about unknown DNA evidence that's been excluded.
But as you've succinctly pointed out,
most people will not or cannot understand the in's and out's of the partial matches in this case, and will accept IE's word without hesitation. And this includes MSM -- which totally boggles my mind!
I guess if you hate the District Attorney enough, you can believe anything -- including BM. It's certainly not because the proof is not available. MOO