Just before court opened today for David Kobak's jury trial, Deputy District Attorney Whitney Timm went in with Dale Cloutier, senior criminalist at the Eureka lab for the CA DOJ. Cloutier has already testified for the People. He will be testifying again for the People, most likely tomorrow.
He was in the audience when defense witness Suzanne Perry testified. She is an analytical chemist. I am not going to go into her testimony because there was a lot of opinion and hypotheticals on both sides and nothing she said today helped definitively establish Kobak's blood alcohol level. The defense also left out some information and so her analysis is not based on complete information.
From the beginning, Deputy District Attorney Whitney Timm challenged Perry's qualifications. After some testimony, she was qualified as an expert witness. Perry admitted she had no formal training on how alcohol affects the body, she only offered opinion, she was unable to offer citations for those opinions and she got defensive when Ms. Timm grilled her on an unprofessional tweet. She is being paid to testify and that out of 50 cases, she had only testified in court for two or three cases.
She had been hired in civil cases for her opinion,; in criminal cases she has only testified for the defense. Testimony did not even start until 2:25 and ended today at 4:45 p.m.
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