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He may not be going so far as to accuse them of deliberately lying, but it appears he is accusing them of playing fast and loose with the facts stated in their affidavits. Do we have a copy of this argument by Geragos? It would be easy to get a copy of that Supreme Court case--those things are online, if you want it--but frankly, it sounds like he's making some pretty standard challenges here.

As for the hair, as everyone here can see, it appears that Geragos is accusing the two detectives of carelessly mixing the hairbrush (known to contain Laci's hair) with THE hair from the pliers, and he is obviously going to say that they let a hair from the hairbrush fall into that bag, and that that's why THE hair tested as "probably" being Laci's under the mitochondrial DNA testing--because it WAS hers, a hair from her hairbrush, not really from the pliers.

Yes, I saw that bit about "high probability" or whatever, that THE hair was Laci's. I am assuming that they phrase it that way, instead of just saying "tests showed it was Laci's", b/c even with DNA testing, they are STILL dealing only in probabilities. (But the probabilities in some of that DNA testing are things like, a billion to one, or something like that.) I mean, when they do a DNA test for paternity, it is still stated as something like, "there is a 99% chance that he is the child's father", and that is considered a hit, of course. But I might just be totally off the wall with this.

No you aren't off the wall. Nancy Grace gave the odds when it's a Mito/DNA match. It was in the billions I think or hundreds of millions anyway. I agree that These Defense Challenges are Standard. These guys ALWAYS challenge the State's evidence and of course the Detectives are always messing with and contaminating the evidence, and they are lying, and there is an interruption in the chain of evidence handling...blah blah blah!!

It says in today's filing that the original hair was 5 to 6 inches long. That hair split into two pieces, one 4 3/8" and one 1 5/8". Can someone please tell Geragos that if you add that together, voila, you get 6 inches. I've heard that pliers are hard on the hair and may have made it more fragile.

Bottom line....no mystery, the hair broke. Geragos is fishing.