Eric Faddis

It seems like the horse they're going to ride is self-defense.

And although this has been certainly a lot of trauma introduced into this trial, it's not over yet.

And defense still has their case to put on.

Sure, so I think there are several ways you go about it.

One is that the fact that she exists and was a sex worker, that has nothing to do with this case.

The fact that there may have been some prior allegations, you look at how attenuated those are.

You try to see, hey, how much time has gone by?

You look at distinctions between those allegations

And the allegation at this trial, which is that he used a rock to bash her head, my apprehension is that there are going to be some dissimilarities between both of those accounts.

And when you have those distinctions, when you have that attenuation, sometimes the judge is going to say, hey, that's too removed.

That's too remote.

And we are not going to let it in in this trial because it could prejudice the jury to convict this dude because they think he's a bad dude or they think he has a bad character or they think he's been violent before.

But he's not

being charged with being violent before.

It will certainly be a challenge.

So the courts like science that has been generally accepted, that has widespread acceptance, scientific consensus, and when we have new technology, there just hasn't been enough time for the scientific community to reach that position.

And so certainly what defense would do in court is say, hey, the principles behind this are not reasonably reliable.

They have not been tested enough for this to be admitted into evidence at what could be a very high profile criminal trial.

know i think there is a ton of public pressure on this sheriff not only in that community but nationally perhaps internationally you know they're looking for developments what are y'all doing what progress have you made and so i think that that is probably the motivation behind this announcement and it also perhaps shows that the investigation has enough information to rule out these folks whether that's on a timeline basis on a forensic basis or some other basis

And so it sort of telegraphs to the world, hey, we're trying to make progress, and we believe we are, and we believe we can exclude the family as potential perpetrators.