Casey Anthony trial: Debate about heart-shaped sticker, root growth resumes today
Defense attorney Dorothy Clay Sims says testimony from a forensic botanist for the state is based on 'speculation and conjecture.
"Snip" By Anthony Colarossi, Orlando Sentinel
April 9, 2011
Chloroform evidence
Baez said chloroform level evidence linked to the trunk of Anthony's car should be excluded because state witness Dr. Arpad Vass, who testified about that issue, is not a chemist and other experts disputed his findings.
Ashton, however, said the experts did agree on Vass' methodology. And all Vass said is that the chloroform level identified in his analysis was higher than what is normally seen in human decomposition.
Plant-root growth and remains
Hall wrote a report giving an estimate of how long Caylee's remains likely stayed in the heavily wooded spot where they were found in December 2008.
Assistant State Attorney Jeff Ashton said that the defense has its own expert dating the
root growth at the recovery scene.
Stain in Anthony's car
Baez argued against the admissibility of a stain identified in the trunk of Anthony's car. He says tests show the stain was not "biological" in nature.
Ashton said the state's expert simply linked fatty acids to the stain that may be of human origin and he repeated that the defense presented no evidence strong enough to exclude information about the stain from coming in at trial.
Post-mortem hair banding
Ashton said, the darkening of hair roots as a sign of decomposition after death has been recognized since 1988.
Heart-shaped sticker
Later today, it's possible that disputed evidence concerning a heart-shaped sticker
Chemicals from human decomposition
Vass said air samples originating from the trunk of Anthony's Pontiac Sunfire contained chemical compounds he has identified as being consistent with human decomposition.
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