Freedman asking her about her experience with DNA rape cases. “How long has it been since you’ve tried a rape case?” Goodenow: 7 years.
Freedman is being very condescending, telling her that DNA is much more complicated now than it was then. Says that it’s so complicated that you allow the experts to write the report and you’re going to believe what they say, right?
Goodenow: Yes, with one caveat. If there’s exculpatory evidence she’d tell the defense immediately.
Nifong is trying to lay it all on Meehan now. Nifong was just a dumb dupe, it seems.
Freedman: Statute allows defense to get underlying material, correct? Her: Correct.
Freedman: Statute allows defense to request its own testing, right? Her: Correct.
Freedman: Just because you don’t have DNA doesn’t mean you can’t go forward with a rape case. Her: That’s correct.
Goodenow: Mecklenburg County has always had open file discovery. (Maybe there is something to that Mecklenburg feeling of superiority.)
Freedman: “Regardless of the quality” of the accuser’s testimony, if you just have an ID and no DA could the trial go to jury? Her: It depends.
Now Freeman is trying to impeach her testimony on what a DA can say in pretrial publicity. He asks if someone has not been charged and he makes statements “to alert the public” is that OK? Her: Yes. That’s allowed, if it’s a legitimate law-enforcement need.
He’s not getting anywhere with this.
Now asking about duty to share exculpatory evidence. He asks if defense gets it in time to prepare for trial is that OK? Her: If it’s really exculpatory it’s “about the mosts important thing you possess that you’er supposed to turn over to a defense attorney.”
Freedman now trying to say that DNA is really, really complex so if your “expert” tells you he’s putting it in the report you have to believe him, right? Her: Without any reason to think otherwise, yes. (It’s Meehan’s fault!!)
Freedman: Could an 1,800 page data dump (my words) be called a report? Her: Could be.
Freedman: Is it possible that there can be an interim and a final report? Her: She’s never gotten an interim report.
Freedman: But if you do subsequent testing you’re going to get another report. Her: Yes.
Freedman: The juror with the Duke lacrosse t-shirt was a malcontent anyway, right? Her: Doesn’t know.
Freedman: Not all counties have the resources Meck does to get all this stuff provided. Her: Correct. It would take longer to provide.
Now Jean on redirect. More of the same about prosecutor obligations.
Freedman: Turning over a report in October complies though, right?
Goodenow: A six-month delay in turning over information is not timely or fair and does not comply with state statutes.
