His whole argument with the analysts -- obnoxious and also absurd. Flight of fantasy. If any of those hairs come back to the defendant....
Here's his argument, best I can map it. The City of Hartford is sloppy in that they allow just anyone to all willy nilly throw garbage into *gasp* city garbage bins where, unlike a laboratory with strict protocols, garbage twists and twirls with other garbage like some kind of Dante's Inferna orgy of trash hell. And since the defendant was sitting in the truck with a man (who she says what FD but her attorney would like us to believe is a different man with a white shirt, no logo) that, when he threw away trash, somehow the concrete mixer of trash spinners, took some epidurial cells (his words) and some of her hairs danced themselves into tied, taped and sealed trash bags and braided themselves into the scrubby side of a scrubber sponge. Because that's how transference works. Not even flyaway hair extensions even, but rooted hairs. Same way, I suppose, her fingerprints landed on the opening of a trash bag. Like they flew through the air and landed there.
It would be laughable if it were the least bit funny. Too, his objections over junk science and his love affair with the Moody case, which the judge already put out of its misery. Now JS is arguing that these analysts didn't do enough presumptive testing. Never mind that presumptive tests are for in the field and the lab uses screening tests and will always defer to the most sensitive, most confirmatory test if the sample is vulnerable to consumption. Hey, JS, if it's already been tested by LE in the field and it's marked for nuclear DNA testing, there's no reason for these analysts to conduct intermediate confirmatory tests! The rest of us understood that 37,000 words ago.
I notice also that JS is no stranger to leading with, isn't it true... despite his objections toward the State of the same.
Mostly I find I object to the defense.
Sustained.
JMO
