You are correct poor Damon did move from where he was stabbed.
1 is the hand print. You will recall, they cut it out. It
2 was Damon's hand print. It was a small palm print there
3 on the couch. Actually, I think it was right in this
4 area here.
5 They cut it out, the blood came back
6 to Damon, and you could see his little hand there. The
7 trouble is they didn't find that until after they pulled
8 the blanket up. You see that blanket had to be placed
9 there after he had walked through there.
10 We can tell from the DNA that Damon
11 moved some after he was stabbed. He sat down, probably,
12 you can see where the imprint of his pants were, and he
13 moved through here, and then, of course, wound up over
14 here.
15 All this was not adding up to Cron.
16 Now, there were fingerprints found on that windowsill,
17 and Cron told you how fingerprints get there, you know.
18 People with their oil will leave a print. Most of the
19 time you don't have a print you can get. Officer
20 Hamilton told you he got lots of prints, but most of them
21 he couldn't match up. When you touch something, it would
22 just smear. It doesn't mean anyone touched it.
23 Cron can't tell you how long that
24 print was there or when it was put there. He can tell
25 you, "Well, from looking at it though, it could have been
Sandra M. Halsey, CSR, Official Court Reporter
