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The Shady FBI Chemist Marc Lebeau And The EDTA Test
Do you remember Marc Lebeau and the EDTA test he did for the state? Well, I, and a lot of other people think that test was shady as hell. I don’t think their was a test done to see if the blood actually came from the vial. Well, Redditor /u/Whitevorpal posted about a court case in which Marc Lebeau was found biased towards the State in a court case in 2003.
Here is the post:
In 2003 Marc Lebeau the fbi chemist who created the dodgy EDTA test to ‘prove’ Stevens blood had not come from the vial, was found to be biased towards the state and his testing procedures and expert testimony deemed inadmissible in court. William Sybers found guilty of first-degree murder was granted a new trial in part because of Lebeau’s evidence and testimony.
We conclude that the state has failed to carry its burden of establishing by “independent and impartial proof” that the testing procedures used are generally accepted in the relevant scientific community. The only testimony offered by the state to establish the general scientific acceptance of the testing procedures came from Dr. Ballard and Mr. LeBeau, each of whom either had a personal stake in the procedure or was prone to potential institutional bias.
In summary, we hold that the trial court committed reversible error when it admitted (1) the expert testimony of Dr. Ballard and Mr. LeBeau. (Paper discusses a couple of other issues). Because of these errors, we reverse, and remand for a new trial.
Case: http://caselaw.findlaw.com/fl-district-court-of-appeal/1260298.html
Blog: http://www.convolutedbrian.com/the-avery-appeal-step-one.html
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WTF?!? Do you think there’s a good possibility Marc Lebeau showed bias towards the State in the Steven Avery trial? I do. In fact, I’m willing to bet that is going to be one of the things Kathleen Zellner uses as one of her key items to get Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey freed. Even if she can’t get them exonerated, she has a 99.9% chance of getting a new trial and you can bet your ass she is going to wipe the courtroom floor with the prosecution and their so called ‘evidence’.
I can’t wait until it all unfolds and people will see how disgusting the Manitowoc County Sheriffs/police were during this whole investigation.
-TID
theinspiringdad.com
I think it runs even deeper than that. I find it especially interesting that the primary reason why the FBI was purportedly present in the trial is, according to Mark LeBeau, whenever there is the possibility for evidence tampering at the state level, the federal government is called in to investigate. But here’s the clincher: Mark LeBeau stated that he received his samples not from personally attaining them but from the state itself, the very body in question that was accused of tampering with evidence in the first place!
Some of my questions are did they only test for the presence (or absence) of EDTA? Did they at least run a blood typing to ensure that it corresponded to Steven Avery’s blood type? Did they try to take it a step further and do a DNA profile to guarantee it was belonging to the accused? Hell, how do we even know the blood was human? And probably more importantly, has anyone (for the defense) even tried to repeat the FBI’s testing of the blood with sample taken from Ms. Halbach’s vehicle? One of the key components to validating a new and otherwise unknown testing procedure is to be peer reviewed and tested with near identical results. Only then can it be deemed a valid test within the scientific community.
One other interesting facade to this whole charade. Around 2015 or 2016, those people like myself that maybe wasn’t sure as to the innocence or even guilt of Steven Avery but most assuredly believed that the state was more guilty of invoking shady if not criminal malfeasance, they were calling for the President to exonerate Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey. From the Office of the President came the statement, and I’m paraphrasing, that since the crime was deemed a state and not a federal crime, the President could do nothing to release them and that would have to be handled at the state level. So, what I got from that is that the highest office in the land deemed that any and everything tied to either of these two cases were under the sovereignty of the state and not the federal government. If that’s truly the case, then what was the FBI, a FEDERAL institution, doing lending ANY assistance during the Steven Avery trial???
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