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RSS FeedsRosie DiManno: Judge`s patience with accused killer wears thin at Laura Babcock murder trial
(The Star Toronto Raptors)

 
 

29 november 2017 07:25:54

 
Rosie DiManno: Judge`s patience with accused killer wears thin at Laura Babcock murder trial
(The Star Toronto Raptors)
 


Perhaps only a non-lawyer would, deliberately or unwittingly, antagonize the judge at his murder trial.Perhaps Dellen Millard, a naïf at the bar — he’s representing himself — was genuinely flummoxed by the rules of direct examination.It takes years of study and articling before legal fledglings enter the profession and are given custody of so serious a trial. Millard is just into his sixth week of impersonating a lawyer.In his second day of calling evidence for the defence — his defence — Millard summoned an archeologist with the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa to testify about bones which were photographed July 23, 2012, burning in an incinerator that investigators would seize more than a year later at his Kitchener-area farm property.These bones, the prosecution contends, were the remains of 23-year-old Laura Babcock, allegedly cremated on that night.As evidence, the bones exist only as a photographic image of poor resolution.A Crown witness, an expert forensic anthropologist, scrutinized the handful of photos and told court earlier this month that the objects in the incinerator “appear similar to human beings,” more so than bones of a deer or any other animal, though Dr. Tracy Rogers emphasized that she couldn’t be certain.It was for this crucial point that Millard brought forward an expert of his own. Except Scott Rufalo is neither a forensic anthropologist nor any other kind of anthropologist. His expertise, as outlined in a CV, extends to the area of zoo archeology — animal remains, sometimes thousands of years old.“It should be stated that I’m offering an opinion based on a poor quality image that is based on patterns of shadow and light,” Rufalo told Millard under direct questioning as the magnified images were shown yet again to the jury, the witness pointing out his interpretation of markers such as projections and indentations which he concluded pointed away from human sp ...


 
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