After more than two months of testimony, many of the jurors seem to be going through some sort of vacation-itis. Most have stopped taking notes. Some are yawning from time to time. Some aren’t even looking at the forensic scientists on the witness stand today. They all appear ready for a long break.
They’re going to get it, too. Today is the last day of the trial for the year. The trial will be on vacation from tomorrow through the New Year. However, today brings some of the most important forensic evidence of the case to date. A former Mesa police DNA analyst named Virginia Smart just took the stand and is expected to tell the jury that she found Dale Hausner’s DNA on a pair of latex gloves that also had gunshot residue on them. This would explain why his fingerprints were not found on the recently-fired shotguns seized in a search of his apartment and car following his arrest in August 2006.
Read my new book Serial Shooters The Rising. It is a fiction book that gives a possible scenario of how the Serial Shooters were formed.
I hope the jurors will survive the long trial.