Redirect examination of Renee Montgomery

📄 Redirect examination of Renee Montgomery — Thursday, November 14, 1996

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TRIAL

▲ Day 15 of 57

◀ Cross-examination of Renee Montgomery (afternoon) Recross-examination of Renee Montgomery ▶

Witness: Renee Montgomery
Examiner: Tom Lambert
Called by: Plaintiff • Date: Thursday, November 14, 1996 • Utterances: 6

Tom Lambert conducted a brief two-question redirect of DNA analyst Renee Montgomery to clarify terminology Blasier had raised on cross. Montgomery distinguished between a 'hint' (not confident the band exists, no significance placed on it) and a 'trace' (confident the band exists, but full genotype cannot be determined).

# 1 MR. LAMBERT:

Only one or two, Your Honor.

REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. LAMBERT:

# 2 Q:

(BY MR. LAMBERT) Ms. Montgomery, Mr. Blasier asked you some questions about trace and hint of bands on his cross-examination.

Could you explain to us what the difference between those two is?

# 3 A:

Yes. A hint is something that, in our interpretation, we wouldn't place any significance on it; we're not confident that it exists.

A trace is a band that, well, we're confident the band exits, but the actual genotype, the whole profile of that sample, cannot be determined, meaning we see the particular band there, but yet we cannot say what the full profile of that banding pattern is.

KEY QUOTE

# 4 Q:

And you wouldn't classify something that is a band unless you were confident that it was a band; is that right?

# 5 A:

Correct.

# 6 MR. LAMBERT:

No further questions.

RECROSS-EXAMINATION BY MR. BLASIER:

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (2)

Renee Montgomery

A hint is something that, in our interpretation, we wouldn't place any significance on it; we're not confident that it exists.

Rehabilitates her prior testimony by clarifying that hints are not treated as evidence of a match.

Renee Montgomery

A trace is a band that, well, we're confident the band exits, but the actual genotype, the whole profile of that sample, cannot be determined.

Distinguishes trace from hint, clarifying the evidentiary weight of each classification.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 8257 • 6 utterances • Plaintiff witness

Civil Trial

Department 103