Casey Anthony hearing: Debate centers on hair evidence, cadaver dogs
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...y-trial-frye-hearing-20110323,0,3062670.story
By Anthony Colarossi and Amy Pavuk, Orlando Sentinel
3:53 p.m. EDT, March 23, 2011
Casey Anthony's defense team argued hair evidence should be excluded from murder trial and are raising questions about cadaver dogs used in the investigation.
A variety of other issues are slated to be debated during the hearing.
Gerardo Bloise, a crime-scene investigator with OCSO, says the K-9 smelled around Casey's car that day, but came to a stop and sat down at the rear of the car near the rear bumper after sniffing the trunk.
That dog and another also alerted to three spots in the back yard of the Anthony home.
A defense expert forensic anthropologist Dr. Scott Fairgrieve, has said during his deposition that dogs are not scientific instruments. While dogs serve as tools, he said, "There is error involved with the scenting ability of a dog."
He has no official education background in the training, deployment or reliability of these dogs.
He has seen 10 to 20 training sessions or actual cases involving these dogs.
Linda Drane Burdick is now challenging his qualifications to testify about cadaver dogs based on his limited experience with the dogs and reading research in this area rather than conducting his own research. He acknowledged that some of the source materials he has read came from online sources readily available to anyone.
FBI fiber examiner Karen Korsberg Lowe finds 'postmortem root banding."
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