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Dick asking witness what if anything fingerprint related happened the night of the crime scene? Witness cannot answer because he was not there.
SC - Paul Murdaugh & mom Margaret Found Shot To Death - Alex Murdaugh Accused - Islandton #18
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Dick is basically trying to paint the picture that LE and Crime Scene people didn't do their job fingerprinting the night of the murder.
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Paul’s phone especially seems like it was wiped. With as much as we’ve heard he used it, there should have been at least his prints.
Darnell testifies he examined a phone - identified by prosecutor Savanna Goude as Paul’s - for fingerprints. “I did not find anything I could identify. I found a very small amount of fingerprint evidence on the phone.” Not enough detail for comparison, though.
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Agreed and even the phone's. Unless your one who has this uncontrollable habit of wiping down everything you touch. Defense lawyer making a point of no prints were found basically anywhere, like things were wiped down along with latex gloves worn.
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That is all they have.
Calling LE incompetent and trying to keep evidence from being admitted.
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State calls Blake Johnson, Agent for SLED.
Burney steps down. The jury comes into the room. We are moving back to the murder portion of this trial. The state calls its 22nd witness, Thomas Darnell, a fingerprint examiner with SLED. Fingerprints!
The courtroom is jam-packed. Our reporter, who has a reserved seat, just tried to get in and was denied.
Darnell, who has done fingerprint work for about 30 years, testifies he has rarely, if ever, found fingerprints on fired shell casings. Those casings are exposed to heat and friction, and “fingerprints are so fragile.”
Darnell testifies he swabbed the camo shotgun Murdaugh retrieved from the Moselle house that night. He said fingerprint examiners typically swab several parts of the gun, including the trigger, to try to find prints.
Darnell testifies he examined a phone - identified by prosecutor Savanna Goude as Paul’s - for fingerprints. “I did not find anything I could identify. I found a very small amount of fingerprint evidence on the phone.” Not enough detail for comparison, though.
Darnell testifies he also processed several guns seized from the Murdaugh home, including a .300 Blackout and three shotguns. He tested a 30-round magazine with .300 Blackout cartridges for fingerprint evidence but didn’t find detailed-enough prints.
Harpootlian seems to be questioning how investigators gathered fingerprints - or didn’t gather them - at the crime scene on the evening of 6/7/21. Particularly in the feed room where Paul was shot to death.
Darnell never went to the scene. Harpootlian: You would want to do a meticulous examination of a small room like that to look for fingerprints, right? Darnell: “I would.” H: Wouldn’t you expect to see notes that they looked for them? D: Yes. I would. Detailed ones.
H: “Would it surprise you to know that Mr. Murdaugh was seen - when first responders came - holding that shotgun?” And yet there was no evidence of prints on that gun. D: Correct. “Prints aren’t always left on a surface when you touch something.”
Harpootlian establishes that Darnell identified no fingerprints of value on anything. Not sure what we're doing here, exactly.
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Took buccal swabs from Connor Cook and CB Rowe. (groundskeeper)
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