Justin Balding

Another person had been diagnosed with a serious disease.

So they felt like they would lose some of their key witnesses if they were to postpone.

And the prosecutor had told me that they might be three to five years before they could get it back onto the docket.

Yeah, very much so.

I mean, I think the defense was really effective at

using 2025 investigative standards, sort of crime scene forensic standards, and applying them to 1992, saying that the

Investigating officers at the scene didn't wear latex gloves.

They weren't wearing booties.

They had their fingerprints in various places saying that the crime scene was contaminated.

I think that was effective with the jury.

Yes, it was.

Even more than that.

Yeah.

Yeah, it was 234 quintillion chance that it was anyone else except Tony Hayes.

Well...

The defense was very effective because in the interview with Tony Hayes, the defense had said the investigators were telling it was 100% match to his DNA.

And it isn't 100% match.

That was their version.

And that seemed to register with the jury.

It is, yeah.