Posts Tagged 'court'  The evidence before the court is
incontrovertible, there’s no need for the jury to retire…
Exhibit LH/5 - The jacket Stephen Lawrence had worn on the night
he died. The outcome of the case may come down to the continuity
of exhibits like these.  For anyone who’s been following the
developments in the Stephen Lawrence retrial, the importance of
correctly handling exhibits is quite clear with much of the
argument of the defence being based upon the reliability of DNA
evidence relating to exhibits collected as part of the original
case.  Gary Dobson and David Norris are both accused of having
participated in Lawrence’s murder. The prosecution are claiming
that fibres, blood and hair found on the clothing that was
seized from them at the time links them to the scene and proves
that they took part in the attack. Their defence council deny
this saying that the evidence found is nothing more than
evidence that their clothing had been contaminated at a later
point.  How then do we as police off