Most prosecutors, she said, would rather put on live testimony from analysts because it tends to be more compelling than paper records.
"They won't need to rely on criminally culpable people to put on that sort of testimony".
In addition to the new forensic evidence, Mr. Charlton and his partners interviewed new witnesses who contradicted all the testimony put on by the state at trial.
In explicitly basing at least part of her ruling on complicated statistical analyses that most ordinary jurors wouldn't understand, Judge Scheindlin has raised anew the question of what sort of weight should be put on academic testimony in cases of this sort.
All the jury needed to hear was 'His hands came back dirty.' The prosecutor, Thomas D'Amore, and the forensic technician, Vicki Hall, put on false gunshot residue testimony.
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: Viacom chairman and chief executive Sumner Redstone put on a tough performance during testimony on the second day of a trial in which Viacom and its majority-owned Blockbuster business are accused of plotting with major movie studios to kill off the smaller video stores.
Testimony was put on hold Dec. 8 after Arias' defense told the judge that several witnesses refused to testify in public.
(The jury did not hear Carolyn's words because the judge had dismissed them from the courtroom while she spoke, ruling that her testimony was not relevant to the actual murder. But the court spectators heard her, and her testimony was put on the record because the defense wanted her words as evidence in a possible appeal in the event that the defendants were convicted).
He said that if this testimony of faith was put on a scale and all of creation was placed on the other side, the testimony of faith would weigh heavier on the scale than everything in existence.
The defense put on a case -- based on the testimony of both Mr. Schwarz and Mr. Volpe -- that rested on the supposition that the defendants were telling the truth when they said Mr. Schwarz was not in the bathroom, and that therefore there could not have been a conspiracy to lie on his behalf.
