📄 Redirect examination of William Bodziak (part 3) — Monday, September 18, 1995
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Redirect examination of William Bodziak (part 3)

Witness: William Bodziak
Examiner: Marcia Clark
Called by: Prosecution • Date: Monday, September 18, 1995 • Utterances: 6
A brief two-question redirect in which Marcia Clark asked Bodziak to confirm that any shoeprints left by police officers after crime scene photographs were taken would be irrelevant to his identification of the Bruno Magli prints. Bodziak agreed, clarifying that post-photo police footwear impressions could not have been the crime-relevant prints he identified. The exchange served to neutralize any contamination argument raised on cross.
1 THE COURT:

Miss Clark.

2 MS. CLARK:

One moment, your Honor.

3 (Discussion held off the record between the deputy district attorneys.)
4 MS. CLARK:

Sir, if police officers walked on the walkway after the photographs of the shoeprints were taken, then by definition, their shoes could not have made the bruno magli shoeprints that you identified, correct?

5 MR. BODZIAK:

No. Their footwear impressions would be irrelevant to the crime.

KEY QUOTE
6 MS. CLARK:

I have nothing further.

Temperature

procedural

Key Quotes (1)

William Bodziak
No. Their footwear impressions would be irrelevant to the crime.
Bodziak cleanly disposes of any suggestion that police walking the scene after photographs could account for or undermine the Bruno Magli shoeprint evidence — the prints were documented before any contamination was possible.

Evidence (1)

Informal
Photographs of shoeprints taken at the crime scene, used as the baseline establishing Bruno Magli print documentation prior to police foot traffic
discussed

Notable Exchanges (1)

Marcia ClarkWilliam Bodziak
Clark posed a leading question designed to foreclose a contamination argument — if photos preceded officer foot traffic, those officers couldn't have made the identified prints. Bodziak agreed but sharpened the answer: the police prints would simply be irrelevant, not just temporally excluded.
strategic

Objections

None recorded
Proceeding 7717 • 6 utterances • Prosecution witness
Criminal Trial
Department 103
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