Category: Post-Charge and Trial Issues

Defense’s motion for a new trial in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. The defense cites prosecutorial misconduct and evidentiary insufficiency in support of being granted a new trial.

Defense’s supplemental motions in limine in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. The defense requests evidentiary rulings on items of evidence including photographs, certain testimony, and exclusion of “genetic genealogy evidence.”

Defense’s trial brief in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. The defense raises confrontation clause issues regarding testimonial evidence from absent witnesses (including individuals involved in the forensic testing of evidentiary items in the case) and chain of custody and admissibility issues regarding evidence collected during the autopsy of one of the victims.

Prosecution’s trial memorandum detailing the anticipated evidence and course of the investigation in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. This included the steps taken during the Forensic Genetic Genealogy investigation leading to the defendant. The motion in limine focused on the admissibility of the defense’s efforts to introduce “other suspect” evidence.

Defense’s motion to sever offenses in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987. The defense argues that the two homicides in question should be charged separately based upon differences in proof for each murder including the date, time, and location of each incident.

Prosecution’s charging affidavit detailing the case against the defendant in a Washington double homicide case that occurred in 1987.   Included in the affidavit was a description of the surreptitious collection of the defendant’s DNA once he was identified as a likely suspect from the results of the family tree build-out and the ensuing match and confirmation to the DNA recovered from the female victim decades earlier.