Now JS is showing the rear plate. Is this the actual plate that was removed? Yes. Did you remove it yourself? Yes. Is it true that it was only affixed by two screws? Yes. Front too? Yes.
JS shows a photo of oil on the garage floor, was the oil leaking from this vehicle?
Objection, overruled
Witness doesn't recall.
JS wants to ask about the contents of the bed of the truck. Is this where they were found? No. Someone moved them from inside the vehicle. Did you move them? No. This is where I found them.
Do you know where it was seized from? No.
Do you know that it was seized from PG.
Objection, overruled.
JS asks if the seats were Ford seats. Is Ford owned by Toyota?
JS is arguing about the reference to the seats being Tacoma seats when they're Ford seats.
State objects. Photos were offered for evidence, not for the State's labeling system.
Sustained.
JS is asking about stripping down the truck. Witness states what was removed. Door panel. Carpet.
JS is asking questions about the contents taken from the console. Did you look at every item to see if it had investigative value? Yes.
JS refers to red and blue and yellow items. Automotive fuses, Sir.
JS asks about chains. Witness said we looked at them, determined no evidentiary value, didn't seize.
JS is asking witness about stains and rust on the floor of the vehicle.
JS asks about the license plates bolts. Asking about fingerprints.
Witness schools JS on DNA testing vs fingerprint dusting. Tested the bolts for DNA, tested the plates for fingerprints.
JS is asking the witness about the swabs and did he know there were no positive results?
Witness says he does not know the lab results beyond testing with Kastle Meyer.
JS asks if Luminol is just one presumptive test and Kastle too. That they can test positive for vegetation, animal blood.
Asking if he's the witness who says he buys the test -- yes, for Luminol.
JS asks if the door was sent to the lab. Witness didn't know. Did the swabs get sent? Sir, do you mean the cutting? We sent that to the lab.
JS asks if he's aware that it was negative for blood. Witness says he believes it to be blood, believes that's what the report says.
JS asks if the lab knew which seat was which.
Objection, outside the scope, Sustained
JS is asking the witness if he knew how the seats had been mounted in the Tacoma.
Objection, sustained.
Witness says he doesn't know how they were mounted.