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Caylee Anthony case: Dr. Vass’s work…in, maybe

The long awaited court ruling concerning the admissibility of Dr. Vass’s work on human decompositional gas signatures and the use of air monitoring samples to determine the possibility of a human decomposition event was issued today by Judge Perry.  While … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Chloroform in

Like finding manna on the ground, we receive a daily serving of justice from the Ninth Judicial Court of Florida in the form of a righteous ruling.  Yesterday’s serving came in the form of a denial to the defense’s motion … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: What’s the patent worth?

Jose Baez, in his “closing arguments” on the trunk odor analysis, said Dr. Vass stands to make “millions” on his invention, or otherwise the patent that he filed, for a clandestine grave detector. I started to laugh – very few … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: What’s with the ‘only five’ business???

Through-out this Frye hearing the defense has continued to repeat a statement that there were “only five” of the significant “top 30″ decomposition indicator gases listed in Dr. Vass’s 2008 paper entitled “Odor Analysis of Decomposing Buried Human Remains” detected … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: The decomposition of Dr. Furton’s testimony – Part 2

In this second article reviewing Dr. Kenneth Furton’s testimony in the Frye hearing that took place last week concerning the work of Dr. Arpad Vass, we will look at Dr. Furton’s statements concerning works by Dr. Statheropoulos and Dr. Vass. … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: The decomposition of Dr. Furton’s testimony – Part 1

Dr. Kenneth Furton took the stand this past week as the defense team’s expert to speak about Dr. Vass’s work with air samples of the trunk and the trunk carpet, as well as the ills of using cadaver dogs.  I’ve … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: An assist for Dr. Vass

Jose Baez spent about 8 hours yesterday painting by numbers to reveal the portrait he keeps hidden in his attic.  It was no surprise to find out it is a portrait of a red-assed baboon.  If anyone wants to take … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Magpie reports on 03/24/11 hearing

First I want to just thank the Central Florida media who have been so gracious and helpful to me.  Not that I would expect anything less from the more public representatives of our State.  But, citizen-reporters (i.e. blogging-reporters) are a … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: Frye hearing beginning 03/23/11

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011, at 9:00 a.m. ET begins three days of a Frye hearing that, as best I can tell, will center on Dr. Vass’s work at Oak Ridge National Laboratories concerning detection of gases he states are part … Continue reading

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Caylee Anthony case: A review of Judge Perry’s rulings

Judge Perry issued five orders yesterday in connection with motions heard from both side in the Casey Anthony murder trial earlier in the month.  The results of those orders are as follows: Defense’s motion to suppress statements from various individuals, … Continue reading

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