Robert Blasier conducted a brief recross of Dr. Gerdes, establishing that Gerdes does not test crime-scene evidence himself, unlike Cotton and Sims, and clarifying that control sample 52 was noted as 'pink' and that Gerdes believed the Bundy driveway had pink coloration. Blasier closed with questions about Gerdes's compensation, eliciting that Gerdes personally received none and that his laboratory had received approximately $40,000 across both cases.
# 1 Q: You will acknowledge that Robin Cotton and Gary Sims are forensic scientists?
# 3 Q: An they do, every day, test evidence from crime scenes, correct?
# 4 A: They -- they test the evidence; they don't collect the evidence.
KEY QUOTE # 7 Q: You never test evidence at crime scenes?
# 9 Q: Now, you were asked by Mr. Blasier whether any of these controls were dirty, and said you didn't know, right?
Let's look at the very first control, the one I've been asking you all the questions about. Number 52 control.
Here's Collin Yamauchi's notes.
Move them over a little bit.
See what it says right there? What's that say?
# 11 Q: Pink color, right?
# 13 Q: That was taken from the driveway at the back of the Bundy residence, wasn't it?
# 15 (Plaintiffs' Exhibit 333 displayed on the Elmo screen.) # 16 Q: That driveway has got a pink coloration to it, doesn't it, Doctor?
# 17 A: I believe it does.
# 18 Q: Dr. Gerdes, how much has Mr. Simpson paid you already, thirty, forty thousand dollars?
# 19 MR. BLASIER: Objection.
# 20 A: In this civil case?
# 24 MR. BLASIER: Objection. Irrelevant; outside the scope.
# 25 THE COURT: Overruled.
# 26 A: I am not -- my laboratory has a policy of basically any consulting fees go to the laboratory. I've received zero.
KEY QUOTE # 27 Q: How much has the lab received?
# 28 A: Somewhere around forty thousand, probably.
# 29 MR. LAMBERT: No further questions, Doctor.
FURTHER REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. BLASIER: