Recross-examination of Douglas Deedrick

📄 Recross-examination of Douglas Deedrick — Thursday, July 6, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 109 of 167

◀ Marking witness notes as exhibit Redirect examination of Douglas Deedrick (part 2) ▶

Witness: Douglas Deedrick
Examiner: F. Lee Bailey
Called by: Prosecution • Date: Thursday, July 6, 1995 • Utterances: 6

F. Lee Bailey pressed FBI hair expert Douglas Deedrick on his failure to produce photographic evidence of his microscopic hair comparisons. Deedrick admitted he could have photographed and brought images of what he saw under the comparison microscope, but chose not to. The exchange highlighted a deliberate omission in the prosecution's evidence presentation.

# 1 MR. BAILEY:

Mr. Deedrick, I thought you told us yesterday when I questioned you about the use of the comparison microscope and the fact that you brought us no images of what you saw, I thought you said that a camera could have recorded what it was that you saw in the microscope. Did you not say that?

# 2 MR. DEEDRICK:

I did. It could record those images, that's correct.

KEY QUOTE

# 3 MR. BAILEY:

And you could have brought to this courtroom the same images that you used when you wrote like or unlike in your notes without any supporting criteria, true?

KEY QUOTE

# 4 MR. DEEDRICK:

I could have brought those images, yes.

# 5 MR. BAILEY:

And you chose not to do so, did you not?

# 6 MR. DEEDRICK:

I did.

Temperature

tense

Key Quotes (2)

F. Lee Bailey

you could have brought to this courtroom the same images that you used when you wrote like or unlike in your notes without any supporting criteria, true?

Frames the missing images as a choice, not a technical limitation — undermining the scientific credibility of Deedrick's hair analysis conclusions.

Douglas Deedrick

I did.

Flat admission that he chose not to bring corroborating photographic evidence, leaving his notes unsupported.

Evidence (1)

Informal

Microscopic hair comparison images that could have been photographed and brought to court

challenged by absence — Deedrick admitted he chose not to produce them

Notable Exchanges (1)

F. Lee Bailey•Douglas Deedrick

Bailey extracted a three-part admission: the camera could have captured the images, Deedrick could have brought them, and he chose not to.

strategic

Credibility Attacks (1)

⚔ Douglas Deedrick

omission / deliberate withholding of supporting evidence

Bailey established that Deedrick's 'like or unlike' notations in his notes had no photographic documentation brought to court, and that this was a choice — implying the images would not have supported his conclusions.

Objections

None recorded

Proceeding 6655 • 6 utterances • Prosecution witness

Criminal Trial

Department 103