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DAY 10 OF VAN DAM MURDER TRIAL...VERDICT WATCH!!!
Union Trib ^ | August 21, 2002 | San Diego Staff

Posted on 08/20/2002 9:37:45 PM PDT by FresnoDA

Discovery hearing set as jurors deliberate for ninth day


SIGNONSANDIEGO

August 20, 2002

A request by the prosecution in the David Westerfield kidnap-murder trial to obtain more evidence or information, originally scheduled for a 10:30 a.m. hearing, has been vacated.Jurors in the trial of David Westerfield, the man charged with abducting and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, resume deliberations in San Diego on Monday as speculation mounts that the panel is having trouble reaching a verdict. The jury has so far spent 28 hours, spread over seven days, considering Westerfield's fate. Westerfield is shown in a July 22 courtroom photo. Photo by Pool/Reuters

Word of the hearing's cancellation was relayed to media representatives shortly after 10 a.m. today.

The subject of the discovery motion filed by lead prosecutor Jeff Dusek was not disclosed. No reason was given for the hearing's cancellation.

Today is the ninth day of deliberation by jurors. Today's deliberating session began at 9:07 a.m., according to a public information officer.

Westerfield, 50, is accused of the kidnap and murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, who disappeared from her bedroom in her family's Sabre Springs home on Feb. 2.

 


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KEYWORDS: 180frank; blood; childpornography; daniellevandam; dna; groupies; horndog; kidnapping; sandiego; sweat; tears; vandam; vandamswingers; westerfield
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Testimony about the hair

An expert in animal DNA testified yesterday that none of these hairs could be tested for DNA because they didn't have roots. On cross-examination by Westerfield's lead lawyer, Steven Feldman, she acknowledged that numerous other hairs found in Westerfield's house and motor home appeared at first glance to be similar to Danielle's but were shown upon further testing not to be.

She also acknowledged that she had no way of knowing how long the hairs had been in the house and motor home.

Feldman also suggested that the fibers consistent with Danielle's bedroom also might have come from any number of other houses in the area, since Sabre Springs is a relatively new development where many of the houses are similar models.

On further questioning by Feldman, DuLaney acknowledged that authorities searched for trace evidence on 25 pairs of Westerfield's shoes but didn't find fibers matching Danielle's carpeting on any of them.

Feldman also suggested that the dog hair might have come from any number of different canines.

Theisen said she examined hairs from 10 packages of evidence police sent her. One of those, found on a rug in the bathroom of Westerfield's motor home, could belong to Danielle, Theisen said, but could not be definitively identified as the girl's.

But none of the other hairs were Danielle's, Theisen said. Under cross-examination by Feldman, Theisen testified that she didn't measure the hairs or take photographs of them before she tested them. Performing mitochondrial tests on the hairs destroys them.

They can not prove the hair was Danielle's.

41 posted on 08/21/2002 7:44:01 AM PDT by Mark was here
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To: spectre
Then they (on ctv) started talking about how dusek didn't replay the movie of the real rape shown during opening statement. They think the girl was 6 yrs old...the one where she was raped, and was screaming. They couldn't figure out why dusek didn't replay it during closing.. They concluded it was probably because it would have been just "too much"..
42 posted on 08/21/2002 8:02:14 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: Space Wrangler
I agree with you about the similarity of Richard Jewell.

And LOL, I use to go swimming at Harrison Bay.... years ago, when I was little.

Is the public swimming pool still there?....the two large pools?

43 posted on 08/21/2002 8:03:01 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: MizSterious
LOL Brow beat??? PHooeey... Boxer shorts was mentioned in her testimony. Ya can't deny it. :)


44 posted on 08/21/2002 8:08:15 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
She was comparing the fabric the shorts were made of to the fabric boxer shorts are made of, and you know it. Why are you so obsessed about this? You've been proven wrong over and over again, but you just won't let it go! Could it be because there's so little actual evidence for you to cite that you have to spread misinformation to make your point?
45 posted on 08/21/2002 8:11:03 AM PDT by small_l_libertarian
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Drop it Kim. We've got plenty to talk about.

We don't need to waste yet another day playing riduculous mind games.
46 posted on 08/21/2002 8:11:11 AM PDT by pinz-n-needlez
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Oh, now there's a valid source of info--Court TV! The same source, mind you, where Nasty Grace wailed about Brenda searching through the streets at 3 in the morning? The same source where they continued to say David Westerfield appeared at the cleaners in his underwear? About as reliable as you, Kim. Which is to say, totally discredited.
47 posted on 08/21/2002 8:11:18 AM PDT by MizSterious
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To: MizSterious
I was replying to spec, who was discussing what she heard on court tv..since she didn't mention their comments about a 6 yr old being raped, I did.
48 posted on 08/21/2002 8:13:03 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
And I see you're still at it. The words were "boxer-type" shorts, not boxer shorts. But I wouldn't expect you to see the difference, not when it doesn't fit with your idiotic little theories.
49 posted on 08/21/2002 8:13:14 AM PDT by MizSterious
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To: small_l_libertarian
I'm not obsessed with it...mizs brought it up..see above.
50 posted on 08/21/2002 8:14:02 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: MizSterious
Miz, don't you remember kimmie's posting rules. You must not reply to her unless she posted to you first. Since she was posting to spec, only spec must reply to her on that topic.
51 posted on 08/21/2002 8:15:43 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: pinz-n-needlez
Hi Pinz-n-needles.. check out the other thread...fitz mentioned that amber (which the amber alert was based on) was found with one sock. Thought you might want to see it.
52 posted on 08/21/2002 8:15:55 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Kim, any post on here can be answered by anyone, just as any thread on FR can be attended by anyone--including you. Yes, you addressed that post to Spectre's wife, but keep in mind, you're on a thread where you weren't invited, too. That's how a place like this works, unless someone gets banned.

(We should be so lucky.)
53 posted on 08/21/2002 8:16:27 AM PDT by MizSterious
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To: ican'tbelieveit
Hey...I was just saying that if you did reply, to ping me. I didn't ask the other person to ping...not a biggie.
54 posted on 08/21/2002 8:17:10 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: pinz-n-needlez
Perhaps one reason I cling to the hope of a refrigerated body is that I can scarcely bear to think of the child being alive during all that time. And, like I say, I'm not at all expert on how corpses will react to different conditions--I hope someone who is will weigh in on this.
55 posted on 08/21/2002 8:18:44 AM PDT by MizSterious
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To: MizSterious
ROFL! Oh mizS....you do have a sense of humor.
56 posted on 08/21/2002 8:19:02 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Were you the caller last night to LKL?
58 posted on 08/21/2002 8:22:16 AM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: Jrabbit
Well, the primary, official Free Republic Van Dam Apologist herself is right here on this thread. Perhaps you can ask her? LOL! As for me, I find it almost unbelievable that someone will deliberately report false information as they have done on many of the networks. When it's just some fool on the internet, it's much easier to discount that kind of thing, but you'd think network reporters and commentators could do a little better. Not that they did all through the Clinton years, of course...
59 posted on 08/21/2002 8:22:18 AM PDT by MizSterious
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To: basscleff
LOL !


Just remember, YOU started it. See ya on the BRIGHT SIDE!
60 posted on 08/21/2002 8:22:42 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8
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