Comments on: Spatter Chatter

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:53:29 +0000

Bernie did say that Dr. Lee’s globe trotting mayyy prevent him from remaining on the case. This could mean the defense might have to shop for another expert.

Hopefully we’ll get the Nov. 6 status hearing transcript soon. That exchange was rather… amusing. Or surreal.

By: Clio

Clio — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:16:56 +0000

I know. Yet, how many people from Taiwan get to play the Connecticut squire? Dr. Henry C. Lee and the American Dream/Nightmare — coming to a theater (or courtroom) near you!

Why is he in Turkey? Istanbul this time of year could be quite lovely — particularly on the trouple’s dime.

By: CDinDC

CDinDC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:59:34 +0000

Back in the day, Dr. Lee was one of the preeminent forensics specialists. Now he’s selling his soul. Very sad.

By: Bea

Bea — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:53:28 +0000

Yeah, if I recall correctly, he was accused of finding the victim’s fingernail and making it ‘disappear’ and wasn’t allowed/decided not to testify.

By: CDinDC

CDinDC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:24:06 +0000

Then there is this jewel: “On May 23, 2007, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Fidler, the judge in the Phil Spector murder trial, said that he had concluded Dr. Henry Lee hid or accidentally destroyed a piece of evidence from the scene of actress Lana Clarkson’s shooting.”

By: CDinDC

CDinDC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:20:55 +0000

Is there some sort of legal action that can be taken against someone that does this? Obviously, his testimony is influenced, if not perjured.

By: Bea

Bea — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:08:14 +0000

And allowed himself to be filmed doing so. And “took advice” from counsel about what sounded right, what didn’t. Despicable. Personally, I’d use that film to discredit him on cross if there was a way to work it in. Just the testimony that there was ‘too much’ blood for a beating so he couldn’t have beaten her to death – yet a fall down the stairs is more plausible to cause it?

By: CDinDC

CDinDC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:48:02 +0000

So, Dr. Lee was actually helping to come up with a story to fit the evidence? That is appalling.

By: Bea

Bea — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:19:12 +0000

I agree that the “evidence” as we know it suggests that SOMEONE cleaned the scene (i.e. ‘tampered’) strictly from a common sense perspective – still want to know about the drop of blood on Dylan’s comforter of course. But my fear resides in that Dr. Lee has no problem testifying to ridiculous conclusions. The documentary ‘Behind the Staircase’ (while in a sense apologetic to the defendant from some perspectives) shows the defense attorney and Dr. Lee behind the scenes trying to find some way to piece together a ‘testimony’ to clear the defendant – appalling.

By: CDinDC

CDinDC — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:21:51 +0000

But we still haven’t seen the forensic testing results of what was removed from the house. So, we don’t know yet what amount of blood was found where in the rest of the house.

As far as the guest room, I think I remember a drop of blood fell to the bed linens. I recall something about an unbroken path or something to that effect, which would mean that Robert’s body was not disturbed enough for that drop to get smudged or altered, etc.

Given the heroics that Joe supposedly performed on his dying friend, you’d think there would be evidence of that in the blood patterns, etc.