Redirect examination of Douglas Deedrick (part 2)

📄 Redirect examination of Douglas Deedrick (part 2) — Thursday, July 6, 1995

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TRIAL

▲ Day 109 of 167

◀ Recross-examination of Douglas Deedrick Jury instruction: admonitions ▶

Witness: Douglas Deedrick
Examiner: Marcia Clark
Called by: Prosecution • Date: Thursday, July 6, 1995 • Utterances: 15

Marcia Clark conducts a brief further redirect examination of FBI hair and fiber expert Douglas Deedrick, rehabilitating him on two points. First, she asks whether his photographic presentation choices were intended to mislead the jury — he explains he was simply trying to make 18 years of technical expertise accessible. Second, and most importantly, she asks whether anything in cross or recross-examination changed his opinions; he firmly states it did not and he stands by his results.

# 1 MR. BAILEY:

Thank you.

FURTHER REDIRECT EXAMINATION BY MS. CLARK

# 2 MS. CLARK:

And by choosing not to take the photograph in that manner, were you attempting to mislead or confuse the jury in some way?

# 3 MR. DEEDRICK:

I try to make it as simple as possible and it is difficult to take eighteen years of hair experience and fiber experience and in the short time that I'm talking to a jury get them to appreciate the value or the meaning or the significance of it, so I try to optimize it. I try to give up the best shot that I can and the way I did it I feel is the pest way to do it.

KEY QUOTE

# 4 MS. CLARK:

And you told Mr. Bailey that not many--not very often do you have this many associations. What did you mean by that.

# 5 MR. BAILEY:

I object to that, your Honor.

# 6 THE COURT:

Sustained. It is beyond the scope.

# 7 MS. CLARK:

Ask to reopen.

# 8 THE COURT:

No.

# 9 MS. CLARK:

Has anything you have heard on cross or recross-examination, sir, changed any of the opinions or any of the results that you have found in your examinations?

# 10 MR. BAILEY:

Objection.

# 11 THE COURT:

Overruled.

# 12 MR. DEEDRICK:

Nothing that I've heard, any of the questions that I have been given influenced my opinions on this case. I stand by my results.

KEY QUOTE

# 13 MS. CLARK:

Thank you.

# 14 MR. BAILEY:

Nothing further, but I ask to approach.

# 15 THE COURT:

Mr. Deedrick, thank you very much, sir. You are excused. And I think we will take our recess at this point.

Temperature

routine

Key Quotes (2)

Douglas Deedrick

Nothing that I've heard, any of the questions that I have been given influenced my opinions on this case. I stand by my results.

The definitive closing statement of a key prosecution expert, affirming his hair and fiber conclusions survived extensive cross-examination by Bailey.

Douglas Deedrick

I try to make it as simple as possible and it is difficult to take eighteen years of hair experience and fiber experience and in the short time that I'm talking to a jury get them to appreciate the value or the meaning or the significance of it, so I try to optimize it.

Rebuts Bailey's implication that Deedrick's photographic choices were misleading — frames them as pedagogical necessity for a lay jury.

Evidence (1)

Informal

Hair and fiber evidence photographs presented by Deedrick during his testimony, the manner of which was challenged by Bailey on cross.

discussed

Notable Exchanges (1)

Marcia Clark•F. Lee Bailey•Lance A. Ito

Clark attempts to let Deedrick explain his statement that associations like these are unusual; Bailey objects as beyond scope and Ito sustains, denying Clark's request to reopen.

strategic

Objections

2 objections (1 sustained, 1 overruled)

Proceeding 6656 • 15 utterances • Prosecution witness

Criminal Trial

Department 103