TRIAL DAY 22 CENTERED ON FORENSIC DR. VASS TESTIFYING ON DECOMPOSITION AND CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS FOUND IN THE CAR LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT HIS TESTIMONY BEING THAT HE WAS THE ONLY WITNESS TO TESTIFY TODAY

DEFENSE IS OBJECTING TO DR. VASS BECAUSE THEY SAY THAT HIS EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY IS EXCULPATORY AND THAT IT'S NOT CONSISTENT
JUDGE SAYS OVERRULED

FIRST TO THE STAND IS DR. VASS

SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST AT OAKRIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY HIS AREA OF EXPERTISE INCLUDES ANTHROPOLOGY (THE STUDY OF BONES) HAS A Ph.D IN ANTHROPOLOGY

STUDIED AND OBTAINED HIS Ph.D IN ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1988-89 TIME FRAME TO STUDY THE DECOMPOSITIONAL PHASES AND THE EFFECTS ON THE BODY HE HAS TESTED OVER 1100 BODIES IN THE DECOMPOSITIONAL PHASES IN HIS LAB

SAID WHEN A BODY IS DECOMPOSING IT EMITS A LIQUID AND THAT LIQUID CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO ANYTHING THAT THE BODY IS RESTING ON WHETHER IT BE SOIL, CARPET, WOOD, BEDDING, CLOTHING ETC.

STUDIED THE BREAKDOWN OF TISSUE IN THE BODY CALLED AUTOLOSIS (SELF-DIGESTION) ROUGHLY TRANSLATED; WHAT HAPPENS IS THE BODY DIES DUE TO DEATH AND THEN THE CELLS NOT REALIZING THE BODY IS DEAD CONTAINS CARBON DIOXIDE NOT BEING RELEASED BY CIRCULATION OR RESPIRATIONS ANYMORE SO THE CARBON DIOXIDE IS STILL CONTAINED IN THE CELLS OF THE BODY AND BEING THAT CARBON DIOXIDE IS ACIDIC IT STARTS TO DECOMPOSE THE CELLS AND LIQUIFY THEM THROUGH THE LYSOSOMES IN THE CELL SURROUNDED BY A SINGLE MEMBRANE RELEASING ENZYMES THAT BEGIN TO DIGEST THE TISSUE OF ONE'S SELF -- AUTOLOSIS LEADS TO SKIN SLIPPAGE WHICH LEADS TO PUTIFICATION WHICH LEADS TO LIQUIFICATION OF THE BODY TISSUE (DECOMPOSITION) AFTER THE BLOAT STAGE (WHERE THE BODY BLOATS BECAUSE OF A BUILD UP OF CARBON DIOXIDE)

PHASES OF DECOMPOSITION : AUTOLOSIS, PUTIFICATION, BLOAT STAGE, SKIN SLIPPAGE, LIQUIFY STAGE, POSTMORTEM INTERVAL, BEGINNING DECAY, INTERMIDIATE DECAY, MIDDLE DECAY, FINAL DECAY (WHERE BONES ARE ALL THAT REMAIN-- EVEN EYES HAVE DECAYED)

SAID THAT DUE TO INVOLITILE FATTY ACIDS INORGANIC COMPOUNDS CAN GIVE A TIMELINE OF DEATH FOUND WAYS TO LOCATE CADAVERS WITHOUT DOGS BY USING CLANDESTINE GRAVES AND PIPE SYSTEMS SAID THAT DECOMPOSITION IS A VERY UNIQUE SMELL SAID THAT ANIMALS DECOMP IS MORE MUSKY AND PIGS ARE MORE SWEET HUMAN DECOMPOSITION IS DISTINGUISHABLE FROM AN ANIMAL MMORE UNIQUE THAN ANY OTHER SMELL AND YOU WILL NEVER FORGET IT IF YOU HAPPEN TO STUMBLE UPON THE ODOR

SAID THE REASON WHY CAYLEE'S BODY DECOMPOSED MORE FASTLY THAN NORMAL BECAUSE OF CHEMICALS IN THE EARTH, BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, HUMIDITY, RAIN AND OTHER EARTH SCIENCE FACTORS FOR INSTANCE HOW ACIDIC THE SOIL IS 

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KEPT STUDYING CLANDESTINE GRAVES BUT ALSO STUDIED BODIES THAT WERE DECOMPOSING ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH SAID THAT FOR THAT STUDY HE LOOKED AT 10 INDIVIDUALS SOME WERE COMPLETELY EXPOSE SOME WERE COVERED IN TARPS AND SOME WERE IN BODY BAGS SAID THAT THEY STUDIED THE SMELL OF DECOMP FROM THE BODIES BY PERFORMING AIR TESTS ON THE BODIES (TAKES A TUBE WITH 3 PIECES OF CARBON IN IT WITH AN ATTACHED PUMP AND SUCKS THE AIR IN THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND THE BODIES THEN YOU TAKE THE TUBE AND HEAT IT UP TO SEE THE COMPOUNDS IN THE CARBON THAT WERE TAKEN FROM THE AIR)

STUDIED ABOVE GROUND BODIES FOR 2-3 YEARS WOULD TAKE AIR SAMPLES WEEKLY BI WEEKLY THEN AT SKELETAL STAGE OF BODY MONTHLY DR. VASS IS NOW CONSIDERED AN EXPERT WITNESS IN THE INITIAL AND NON INITIAL STAGES OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION AND ANTHROPOLOGY

GOT SENT NUMEROUS PIECES OF EVIDENCE FROM THE ANTHONY CASE INCLUDING A METAL CAN

SIDEBAR CALLED BY JUDGE

METAL CAN GETS CALLED INTO EVIDENCE RECEIVED AN AIR SAMPLE CONTAINED IN A PLASTIC BAG FROM THE TRUNK OF THE CAR HE'S THE ONE THAT SENT THE EQUIPMENT TO FORENSIC BAY TO OBTAIN AIR SAMPLES FROM VARIOUS PLACES IN THE CAR AND THE GARAGE CONTAINING THE CAR

AIR SAMPLES SENT TO HIM FROM ORANGE COUNTY CSI LAB ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE

RECESS FOR 15 MINS.

WAS ASSISTED BY OTHER SCIENTISTS IN OAKRIDGE LAB FOR ANALYSIS OF ITEMS OF EVIDENCE FROM THE CASEY ANTHONY CASE GCMS WAS USED TO OBTAIN RESULTS FROM THE AIR SAMPLES HEAD SPACE IS VOLUME OF AIR CONTAINED IN THE CAN AND HE RETRIEVED SOME OF THE HEAD SPACE AIR FROM THE CARPET SAMPLE SENT IT TO GCMS FOR RESULTS

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WENT OVER THE PERATOGRAM OF THE TOP OF THE CAN ONE LARGE PEAK AND SMALLER PEAKS -- LARGE PEAK WAS CHLOROFORM, SAID THAT CHLOROFORM IS SOMETHING THAT A DECOMPOSING BODY PRODUCES NATURALLY SAID THAT THE CHLOROFORM LEVELS WERE SHOCKINGLY AND UNUSUALLY HIGH THEREFORE PROCEEDED WITH TESTING TO DETERMINE SMALLER PEAKS EMANATING IN THE AIR FROM THE CAN REMOVED THE CARPET FROM THE METAL CAN BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T SURE IF THE CARPET WAS REPRESENTING THE AIR IN THE CAN PLACED THE CARPET IN A TEDLARG BAG FOR 2 DAYS AT 35 DEGREES CELSIUS TO ISOLATE FREE FLOWING COMPOUNDS IN THE CARPET RELEASED IN THE AIR THEN EXTRACTED SOME OF THE AIR FROM THE INCUBATED TEDLARG BAG AND SENT IT TO GCMS FOR ANALYSIS RESULTS WERE 51 INITIAL COMPOUNDS IN THE CARPET ONE OF WHICH WAS CHLOROFORM

THE LARGEST PEAK WAS THE BASE PEAK AND IN THIS CASE IT WAS CHLOROFORM SAID THAT THE LEVEL OF CHLOROFORM SHOCKED THEM SAID HE NEVER SEEN AMOUNTS THAT HIGH EMANATE FROM A DECOMPOSING BODY BEFORE ROUGH APPROXIMATION OF CHLOROFORM WERE IN THE MILLIONS PER mL OF AIR CHLOROFORM EVAPORATES RAPIDLY AND BECAUSE IT DOES THEY CAN'T SAY HOW MUCH WAS IN THE CAR BEFORE THEY RECEIVED IT THEREFORE THEY CAN'T SAY FOR SURE HOW MUCH WAS IN THE CAR WHEN THEY DID GET IT

SAID THAT SMALL AMOUNTS OF CHLOROFORM (THOUSANDS) ARE FOUND NATURALLY IN TRACE AMOUNTS COMPARED TO THE MILLIONS THAT WERE FOUND IN CASEY ANTHONY'S CAR USED LIBS EXAM ON THE SPARE TIRE COVERWELL TO DETERMINE THE COMPONENTS IN THE CARPET LIBS DETERMINE THROUGH LASER BEAM THE EXCITED STATE OF ATOMS DIFFERENT COMPOUNDS HAVE DIFFERENT EXCITEMENT LEVELS IN THEIR ATOMS LIBS CAN BE USED IN DECOMPOSITION BECAUSE THE BODY IS MADE UP OF INORGANIC AND ORGANIC COMPOUNDS THE INORGANIC COMPOUNDS BECOME MORE LIBERAL IN DECOMP THEREFORE LIBS CAN DETERMINE DECOMPOSITION NOT A PHYSICIST THEREFORE CANNOT PERFORM LIBS LASER EXPERIMENT OR TESTING

JUDGE REMOVES JURY

THE RESULTS OF THE LIBS EXAM SHOWED THAT INORGANIC ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN DECOMP WERE PRESENT IN THE ENCLOSED SPACE OF THE TRUNK CALCIUM, MAGNESIUM, SODIUM, CARBON AND IRON DOESN'T INITIALLY RUN LIBS EXAMS SAID THAT ELEMENTS ARE FOUND IN EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN SAID THAT HE CAN MAKE A LOGICAL CONCLUSION THAT SINCE ALL THESE INORGANIC ELEMENTS ARE ELEVATED DURING DECOMPOSITION MEANS WHAT HIS NOSE TELLS HIM IS CORRECT

JUDGE RETURNS JURY

THE CHART ON THE SCREEN SHOWS HIGH ELEVATIONS OF CALCIUM A KEY ELEMENT IN HUMAN DECOMPOSITION IN CASEY'S CAR WOUND UP DOING AN EXAMINATION OF EXTRACTION OF CHEMICALS FROM CARPET FIBERS IN ETHANOL WHICH WILL EXTRACT COMPOUNDS AND INJECTION OF METHANOL WILL PREDICT WHAT THE COMPOUNDS ARE FOUND THE PRESENCE OF BUTURIC ACID WHICH IS THE FIRST COMPOUND THAT IS LIBERATED IN THE FATTY ACID SEQUENCE FOUND IN HUMAN DECOMPOSITION

WHEN HE FIRST OPENED THE CAN FROM THE CARPET SAMPLE HE JUMPED BACK A FEET OR TWO BECAUSE THE SMELL EMANATING WHICH HE IDENTIFIED AS HUMAN DECOMPOSITION WAS SO STRONG IT OVERWHELMED HIM SAID THAT IN HIS 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE HE HAS NEVER SMELLED CONCENTRATIONS OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION EMANATE FROM SUCH A SMALL CAN WAS GIVEN A SAMPLE OF SCRAPING FROM THE SPARE TIRE COVERWELL DID A CHEMICAL EXTRACTION ON THE SCRAPING FOUND ACEDIC ACID WHICH IS A BY PRODUCT OF BOTH THE MANUFACTURING OF CHLOROFORM AND HUMAN DECOMPOSITION WAS GIVEN NAPKINS TAKEN FROM THE CAR

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RECEIVED THE BOX CONTAINING THE TRASH (PAPER TOWELS FROM THE TRUNK AND OTHER ITEMS)

LUNCH BREAK UNTIL 1:30PM

PERFORMED ETHANOL ANALYSIS ON STAINED AND UNSTAINED PORTIONS OF THE PAPER TOWELS IT WAS DONE BECAUSE INSECT PUPAE WAS ON THE PAPER TOWELS ALONG WITH FATTY ACIDS THAT MAKE UP GRAVE WAX (THE BREAKDOWN OF FAT) KEY ELEMENTS IN HUMAN DECOMP

REQUESTED AIR SAMPLES FROM VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE CAR TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CARPET WAS THE MAIN SOURCE OF THE DECOMP ODOR AND THEY CONFIRMED THAT THE CARPET IN THE TRUNK WAS THE KEY SOURCE OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION IN THE CAR THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COMPOUNDS OF THE CARPET WERE NOT PRESENT IN THE TRASH FROM THE CAR OR THE AIR IN THE GARAGE

THEY FOUND 51 CHEMICALS IN THE CAR'S TRUNK 41 WERE CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION THE COMPOUNDS AND CHARACTERISTICS FOUND IN THE CAR FROM HUMAN DECOMP WERE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IN HUMAN DECOMP

BUTURIC ACID IS NOT FOUND IN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPOUNDS THEREFORE IS SIGNIFICANT IN HUMAN DECOMP THE AMOUNT OF BUTURIC ACID THEY FOUND IN THE CAR WERE VERY HIGHLY ELEVATED

TAKING ALL THE EXTRACTIONS AND ANALYSIS THAT WAS SHARED THERE IS NO OTHER PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATION OTHER THAN HUMAN DECOMPOSITION TOOK PLACE IN THE TRUNK OF THAT CAR

HE IS NOT A CHEMIST OF ANY SORT SO THEREFORE HE CANNOT TESTIFY OF THE CHEMICAL MAKEUP OF ANYTHING TO SOME EXTENT BAEZ CLAIMS THAT HE HAS A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN HIS TESTIMONY WITNESS DISAGREES WITH THIS STATEMENT

SAID THAT OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS FOUND IN DECOMPOSITION 478 WERE INTRODUCED INTO THE DATABASE BAEZ SAYS THAT THE WITNESS'S TESTIMONY IS IRRELEVANT BECAUSE A SUBMITTAL OF THE 478 CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS CANNOT BE INTRODUCED BECAUSE IT'S PROPIETOR COPYWRITTEN

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WITNESS CLAIMS THAT HE THOUGHT DEFENSE WAS GIVEN A COPY OF THE DATABASE TO HAVE IT VERIFIED BY THEIR WITNESS BAEZ SAID THAT IT WAS NOT BAEZ THINKS THAT WITNESS CREATED A TOOL USED TO AIDE CADAVER DOGS CALLED LABORADOR TO FIND AND LOCATE CLANDESTINE GRAVES AND HE RECEIVES ROYALTIES... THE WITNESS SAID THAT HE ISN'T TRYING TO SELL THEM HE WANTS TO HAVE THEM USED TO FIND CLANDESTINE GRAVES BUT HE WOULD RECEIVE ROYALTIES IF IT WERE PATENTED BY THE LAB AND SOLD SAID THAT IF THE RESEARCH LAB HE WORKS FOR DOESN'T HAVE SUFFICIENT FUNDS THEN THERE IS NO MONEY FOR RESEARCH 

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IN THIS CASE HE DIDN'T DISCLOSE THAT HE HAD A FINANCIAL INTEREST WITH THE DETECTIVES BAEZ THINKS THAT HIS RESEARCH LAB IN TEN. HAS NO PROTOCOLS TO FOLLOW... THE WITNESS SAID THAT ISN'T TRUE THERE ARE PROTOCOLS ON CERTAIN EXPERIMENTS AND ANALYSIS THERE WAS QUALITY CONTROL THAT NEEDED TO BE FOLLOWED IN THIS CASE AND THERE WERE STEPS AND PRECAUTIONS THAT HE TOOK AND FOLLOWED TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION

IN THIS CASE HE TOOK A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS INSTEAD OF A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS WHICH MEANS THAT HE WANTED TO FIND OUT IF THEY WERE BIG OR SMALL AMOUNTS OF TRACE EVIDENCE AND WHAT IS THE ABUNDANCE

BAEZ THINKS THAT HE LEAKED INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA THAT HUMAN DECOMPOSITION WAS FOUND IN THE CAR

JUDGE CALLS SIDEBAR BEFORE WITNESS COULD ANSWER

SAID THAT HE HAD AN EMAIL CONVERSATION BECAUSE OF THE MEDIA COVERAGE OVER HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE CASE IN THE FIRST PRELIMINARY REPORT THERE WERE 54 CHEMICALS AND IN THE SECOND PRELIMINARY REPORT THERE WERE 51 CHEMICALS TO COMPARE CASEY'S CAR HE WENT AND RETRIEVED 2 PONTIAC SUNFIRES FROM A LOCAL JUNKYARD

AT THE TIME DIDN'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE CARS FROM THE JUNKYARD OR THE CAR FROM FLORIDA ONE OF THE CARS HAD CHLOROFORM IN THE TRUNK IN SMALL TRACE AMOUNTS

HAS NO EXPERIENCE IN THE CHEMICAL BREAKDOWN OF THE COMPOUNDS IN CARPET WAS GIVEN A LIST OF THE ITEMS BUT DIDN'T SEE THE ITEMS FOUND IN THE GARBAGE REMOVED FROM THE TRUNK OF THE CAR

PERFORMED THE ANALYSIS OF THE ITEMS AND THE CARPET AND AIR SAMPLES ON 8/30/08 KNOWS THAT AIR IS FREEFLOWING AND THAT THE CHEMICAL COMPOUND CAN CHANGE FROM MOMENT TO MOMENT AND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT WAS DONE TO THE GARBAGE FROM 07/15 TO 8/30

TOOK THESE SAMPLES TO REACH HIS CONCLUSIONS FOR THE PRELIMINARY REPORTS BAEZ SAID THAT HE USED ALL OF THE STATES EVIDENCE EXCEPT FOR THE AIR SAMPLE TAKEN FROM THE TRUNK FOR HIS TABLE (CHART) RESULTS SAID THAT OUT OF THE 41 CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS FOR DECOMP CAN BE REDUCED DOWN TO 7 FROM OVERLAYING AND REPETITIOUS REASONS WHICH CAN BE REDUCED DOWN TO 5 FROM OVERLAPPING AND CAN BE REDUCED DOWN TO 3 THAT HE WOULD CONSIDER SIGNIFICANT TO DECOMPOSITION AND HE SAID THAT'S UNFAIR TO STATE BECAUSE IT'S NOT ACCURATE HE SAID THAT THERE WERE ACTUALLY 7 CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS THAT HE FOUND THOSE WERE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT

THE CARS THAT WERE USED FOR COMPARISON WITH CASEY'S CAR WERE IN THE JUNKYARD AND THERE WERE SAMPLES FROM BLOOD AND OTHER EARTHLY COMPONENTS THAT WERE IN THE CAR THAT COULD HAVE CONTAMINATED EVIDENCE AND ALONG WITH THE CARS WERE OBTAINED WITH THE TRUNK OF THE CAR UNLOCKED AND OPENED NOT KNOWING HOW LONG THEY HAD SAT IN THE JUNKYARD WITNESS SAID "ISN'T IT COOL THAT THEY WERE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS THAN THE FLORIDA CAR" ON THE AMOUNTS AND LEVELS OF TRACE EVIDENCE FOUND COMPARED TO A FLORIDA CAR THAT SAT IN THE FLORIDA SUN WITH TRASH IN THE CAR FOR 3 WEEKS

RECESS BEFORE THE WITNESS CAN ANSWER UNTIL 3:10PM

THE ENTIRE TRUNK WAS SPRAYED WITH A CHEMICAL CALLED BLUESTAR SIMILAR TO LUMINOL THE SPRAYING OF BLUESTAR ON A CONTROLLED SAMPLE WAS NEVER DONE TO FIND THE CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS BECAUSE NONE OF THE CHEMICALS WERE SIGNIFICANT OF THEIR CASE

FATTY ACIDS FOUND THAT ARE LIKE ADIPOSEA:

PALMITIC
STEARIC
OLEIC
MYRISTIC
PALMITOLEIC

THC, CANNIBUNOL WHICH ARE BY PRODUCTS OF MARIJUANA ALSO FOUND ON THE PAPERTOWELS

BAEZ SAID DO YOU STILL THINK THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH ADIPOSEA OR SOMEONE WITH THE MUNCHIES WITNESS SAID THAT WOULD POSSIBLE IF SOMEONE WERE EATING MASS AMOUNTS OF RAW MEAT WITH A BAG OVER THEIR HEAD AND SMOKING SOME SORT OF SOURCE OF MARIJUANA WHICH IN MY EXPERT OPINION IS IMPOSSIBLE BAEZ SAID WHY DO YOU THINK THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE AND THE WITNESS SAID BECAUSE WITH THE BAG OVER THEIR HEAD WOULDN'T THEY SUFFOCATE

ASKS WITNESS IF HE REMEMBERS TRYING TO LOCATE GRAVES AT BARKER RANCH IN CALIFORNIA AND BEFORE WITNESS CAN ANSWER

JUDGE AND PROSECUTION CALL SIDEBAR JURY ASKED TO LEAVE

ASKED TO ANALYZE SAMPLES OF SOIL FROM THE BARKER RANCH IN CALI. WENT ON A TRIP TO THE ACTUAL SITE AND USED INSTRUMENTS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED WITH THE CADAVER DOGS AND FOUND THAT DECOMPOSITION CHARACTERISTICS WERE FOUND AT THAT POINT AN EXPLORATIVE EXCAVATION WAS STARTED BUT TURNED UP NOTHING DURING DIGGING BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T DIG DEEP ENOUGH FOR THERE HAD BEEN PEOPLE BURIED THERE FOR OVER 50 YEARS THEY FOUND CHEMICALS ON THE SURFACE BECAUSE OF FLASH FLOODING IN THE AREA AT THAT TIME AND BECAUSE OF THE BAROMETRIC PRESSURE

WASN'T ALLOWED TO DIG AS DEEP AS HE WANTED TO BECAUSE OF TIME CONSTRAINTS AND DUE TO IT BEING AN EXPLORATIVE EXCAVATION WITNESS TELLS JUDGE IT HAS NO RELEVANCE TO THIS PARTICULAR CASE THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT CHARLES MANSON DID AT BARKER RANCH 50 YEARS AGO... JUDGE SAYS THAT WHAT WAS DONE AT BARKER RANCH ARE IRRELEVANT AND OF NO BARING TO THIS CASE BECAUSE THEY SHOW NO RELATION OR CO-RELATION

JURY RETURNS

PART OF PROTOCOLS WOULD INCLUDE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO OBTAIN SAMPLE COLLECTION BY AVOIDING STORING OR COLLECTING SAMPLES IN AN AREA CONTAMINATED WITH GASOLINE AND THESE SAMPLES TAKEN FROM THE CAR WERE COLLECTED FROM AN AREA CONTAINING GASOLINE AND TRASH THAT WOULD SHOW FALSE POSITIVE READINGS BECAUSE THEY MIGHT LEAK VOLITILE OR ORGANIC COMPOUNDS INTO THE SOIL WITNESS SAID NOT TO TAKE STATEMENT OUT OF CONTEXT BECAUSE YOU CAN COLLECT CONTROL SAMPLES NEXT TO TRASH IF TRASH IS INCLUDED AS PART OF THE CRIME SCENE

DEVINING RODS ARE-- PROSECUTION CALLS SIDEBAR

DEVINING RODS ARE ANTENNA DESIGNED TO FIND PROPERTIES OF CERTAIN PLACES -- COAT HANGERS CAN BE USED AS DEVINING RODS IF USED PROPERLY AND THEY CAN DETECT DECOMPOSITIONAL PROPERTIES FIRST TIME HE'S EVER TESTIFIED IN A COURT CASE

PAPER BY DR. STEPHENOPOULOS WHO HAS FOUND THE SAME RESULTS AS DR. VASS WHEN IT COMES TO IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS IN CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION IS THE ONLY DR. IN THE WORLD ON THE SAME EXPERTISE LEVEL AS DR. VASS

SAID THAT THE SMELL OF HUMAN DECOMPOSITION IS EXTREMELY CLOSE TO THE SMELL OF A POTATO GOING BAD IN YOUR CUPBOARD IT'S HORRENDOUS WHEN IT COMES TO SMELL BUT THAT'S AS CLOSE OF AN IDEA AS YOU WILL GET WITHOUT SMELLING HUMAN DECOMPOSITION

FLEURIDE IS A KEY COMPOUND IN HUMAN DECOMP BUT YET THEY DIDN'T FIND ANY FLEURIDE GOT A BLANKET FROM A BODY OF A CHILD THAT WAS IN A CAR FOR 3 MONTHS BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW THE SPECIFICS OF HOW THE BLANKET WAS STORED BUT YET THAT DIDN'T CONTAIN FLEURIDE EITHER MR. BAEZ (LMAO LOVE THIS GUY)

SAID THAT HE NEVER OBTAINED A SAMPLE FROM THE CARPET OF THE CAR IN MINNESOTA WHERE THE CHILD WAS WRAPPED IN THE BLANKET AND LEFT IN THE CAR FOR 3 MONTHS BECAUSE THE BLANKET WAS THE ONLY THING STAINED CASEY ANTHONY'S CAR WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT HE OBTAINED A CARPET SAMPLE FROM CORRECT-- WITNESS SAID THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF FORENSIC SCIENCE EVERY SAMPLE IS DIFFERENT AND UNIQUE SO YES THAT'S CORRECT

NOT A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL FORENSICS OR ANTHROPOLOGY SCIENTIFIC WONDER AND AMAZEMENT IS HIS FUEL FOR WHAT HE DOES CAREER WISE NOT FINANCIAL INTEREST HAD TO BE ASSISTED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF LABORADOR AND HAD TO BE TAUGHT THAT INFORMATION SO HE COULD ANSWER QUESTIONS TODAY

BECAUSE OF GETTING A CONTAMINATED SAMPLE THAT WAS THE MOTIVE OF GETTING CARS FROM THE JUNKYARD BLUESTAR AND FEBREZE DO NOT CONTAIN CHLOROFORM THEREFORE THE SAMPLE FROM THE CARPET OBTAINED FROM CASEY'S CAR TRUNK WASN'T CONTAMINATED SAID THAT FLEURIDE COMPOUNDS WEREN'T FOUND IN EITHER CHILD CASE BECAUSE A CHILD DOESN'T PRODUCE ENOUGH FLEURINE IN THEIR SYSTEMS BECAUSE ENOUGH TIME HASN'T ELAPSED FOR THEM TO OBTAIN ENOUGH FLEURINE TO SHOW UP

FLUERINE DIDN'T SHOW UP IN CASEY'S TRUNK BECAUSE THE CHILD DIDN'T DRINK ENOUGH WATER OVER TIME SO THIS IS AN OPINION CORRECT-- WITNESS SAID NO, IT'S AN OPINION ON SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER BEEN STUDIED BUT HAS BEEN FOUNDED IN BIO-ACCUMULATION

FOUND PUPAE (MAGGOTS) OF COFFIN FLIES (THAT ONLY SHOW UP AT GRAVESITES OR AROUND DEATH) ON THE PAPERTOWELS A FACT THAT WAS FOUND BY SOMEONE OTHER THAN HIM BUT CANNOT SAY THAT THE FATTY ACIDS FOUND PRESENT CAME FROM MEAT AS BAEZ CLAIMS

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JURORS ARE RELEASED FOR THE DAY THEY WILL BE BACK AT 9 AM IN THE MORNING

PROSECUTION IS OBJECTING TO SQUASH THE DEFENSE'S SUBPOENA ON THE TABLE OF VASS' CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS DEFENSE WITHDRAWS THE SUBPOENA BUT SUBJECTS DR. VASS TO RECALL TESTIMONY JUDGE AGREES WITH THIS RULING AND CLOSES TRIAL FOR THE DAY

TODAY THE PROSECUTION LEAD ALL THE WAY BAEZ TRIED TO WIN SOME BROWNIE POINTS BUT THE HOLES WERE COMPLETELY PATCHED UP BY PROSECUTION ON THE REDIRECT QUESTIONING BAEZ SHOWED HIS IGNORANCE THE WHOLE DAY THROUGH CALLING A TOTAL OF 30 SIDEBARS THAT'S A NEW RECORD EVEN FOR HIM INSTEAD OF ALLOWING DOROTHY SIMMS TO QUESTION THIS EXPERT WITNESS BECAUSE SHE HERSELF IS AWARD ACCLAIMED AT QUESTIONING EXPERT WITNESSES HE HIMSELF DECIDED TO TAKE THIS UP AND DO IT HIMSELF ANOTHER MOVE THAT ONLY AN AMMATEUR WOULD MAKE THE JUDGE HAS BEEN MORE THAN PATIENT WITH BAEZ EVEN THOUGH THE JURY HASN'T AND NEITHER HAVE I TO BE FRANK WITH YOU SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE I THINK THAT HE NEEDS TO QUIT TRYING TO BUILD A REPUTATION AND IMAGE FOR HIMSELF AND FOCUS ON WHAT NEEDS TO BE FOCUSED ON BUT THIS IS BAEZ WE ARE TALKING ABOUT AND CHANCES ARE HE'S TOO INCOMPETENT TO UNDERSTAND THAT

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