Hank Goldberg served as a deputy district attorney on the prosecution team, appearing across 56 trial days with a focus on forensic evidence and evidence-handling procedures. He conducted the direct examinations of key criminalists Dennis Fung and Andrea Mazzola, then fought to rehabilitate their credibility after aggressive defense cross-examinations exposed chain-of-custody gaps and contradictions in testimony. Goldberg also went head-to-head with defense forensic experts, methodically extracting concessions from Dr. Henry Lee on evidence-handling critiques and challenging Larry Ragle's credibility by establishing he hadn't worked an actual crime scene in 19 years. His tenure was not without stumbles — he was cited for violating exhibit restrictions twice in a single afternoon and struggled at times with sustained objections — but he carried the prosecution's burden on the technical battleground where the defense's contamination-and-planting narrative threatened to unravel the physical evidence case.