📂 Friday, May 5, 1995 — Day 68
◀ Criminal Trial
📅 Friday, May 5, 1995 15 proceedings 1639 lines
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Day 68 — Friday, May 5, 1995

Blood Vial Accounting and EDTA Disputes Dominate Matheson Testimony
Judge Lance A. Ito • Criminal Trial • 15 proceedings • 1639 lines
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Criminalist Gregory Matheson's testimony dominated the day, with repeated redirect and recross on blood-vial accounting, EDTA, degradation literature, and lab access records. Goldberg challenged the defense chart with Matheson's approximations and overnight replication, while Blasier elicited a conditional 1.5mL calculation. Ito sustained multiple EDTA objections and told jurors to disregard the last series of EDTA questions and answers. The literature testimony was mixed: Matheson agreed one Yeshion description fit Blasier's account but later maintained the cited articles did not undermine his analysis. Separately, Scheck alleged intentional withholding of a SID document; Lewis disputed the claim, and Ito deferred a ruling pending transcript review.

  • Matheson described an overnight replication of five blood transactions that left approximately 0.4–0.5mL unaccounted for, supporting Goldberg's challenge to the defense's blood-vial chart.
  • Judge Ito sustained multiple objections to EDTA questions and instructed the jury to disregard the last series of EDTA questions and answers; Goldberg continued EDTA questioning afterward.
  • Matheson agreed that the Yeshion article described a degradation path consistent with Blasier's account, while later maintaining that the Yeshion and Grunbaum articles did not undermine his BA-to-B analysis.
  • Using an eight-milliliter starting volume and other stated assumptions, Blasier elicited a calculation of approximately 1.5mL not present as of June 20.
  • Blasier examined limitations in the lab's card-access printouts and posed conditional hypotheticals about access.
  • Barry Scheck alleged that the prosecution intentionally withheld the original SID document during Dennis Fung's cross-examination.
  • Judge Ito questioned Goldberg's basis for a lower blood-volume hypothetical; after Goldberg cited Peratis's later estimate and Blasier raised the sworn preliminary-hearing testimony, Ito overruled the objection and allowed the hypothetical.
Day 68 • 15 proceedings • 1639 lines
Criminal Trial
Department 103
📂 Day 68 — MAY 5, 1995
MAY 5, 1995