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CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 13 FORENSICS OR LACK THEREOF

The following excerpt if from the civil trial. The questioner is Mr. Wilke, an attorney for the defense. the person answering is Missouri State Highway Patrol investigator, H.J. Folsom. Q. "Isn't there a place where you have all of these property record forms that show what you took into evidence?" A. "Property records do not show if an item was submitted to the laboratory. A lab analysis report form is forwarded." Q. "Are you there in that part because, I agree. I'm not going to make the jury sit here. I thought you would have it in one single place." A. "They're received at different times, so they're placed in the file when they're received." Q. "I don't mean to waste time. I don't mean to do that. Let me put it this way. There wasn't much lab work or forensic work on this case, was there?" A. "Not that I believe, no. That was the determination of the prosecutor." Q. "And, yet, you gave the van back to Vickie Brown really without ever doing more than just photographing it and taking one piece of paper that we have the DNA test on here on the board. Except for that, Vickie got her vehicle back. Nothing was tested. Nothing was processed. Nothing was checked." A. "Yes. And that was done through the prosecutor's office."