{"id":545,"date":"2009-02-23T14:18:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T18:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2009-12-07T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T19:29:08","slug":"evidence-collection-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Collection Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/henrylee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-544\" title=\"henrylee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/henrylee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOh God.  I don&#8217;t want to believe this is even possible.  A February 23rd Los Angeles Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-spector23-2009feb23,0,5215241.story\">article<\/a>\u00a0by Harriet Ryan about the Phil Spector trial begins, &#8220;When it came to hiring expert witnesses for his murder defense, Phil Spector went for the top of the line. The scientists he retained to analyze evidence in the fatal shooting of an actress are a who&#8217;s who of American forensics, the men who wrote the textbooks for their fields and whose faces stare out from the television when a criminal case goes national.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But if the conclusions of this high-profile scientific team have helped Spector&#8217;s cause, the conduct of two members has left his defense vulnerable to criticism. In his first trial, a judge concluded that Dr. Henry Lee, the criminalist who gained worldwide recognition for his work on the O.J. Simpson murder trial, hid or destroyed a potentially important piece of evidence from the death scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have posted that I believe evidence should no longer be stored and held by law enforcement, but instead by a disinterested third party. \u00a0I never thought about evidence collection, but maybe a disinterested third party should be collecting crime scene evidence as well.<\/p>\n<p>Before I forget, I want to thank retired detective Mike Bosak for his regular police related email. Every day he clips article about law enforcement and sends that around. \u00a0I would miss so many pieces, like this one, if it weren&#8217;t for Mike Bosak. \u00a0Thank you, Mike!<\/p>\n<p>[The picture is from the Los Angele Time article.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh God. I don&#8217;t want to believe this is even possible. A February 23rd Los Angeles Times article\u00a0by Harriet Ryan about the Phil Spector trial begins, &#8220;When it came to hiring expert witnesses for his murder defense, Phil Spector went for the top of the line. The scientists he retained to analyze evidence in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-8N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}