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The second DNA analyst takes the status – 9:59 a.m.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

The public prosecutor Adam Lally called Karl Miyasako next, another analyst in the Bode laboratory.

Miyasako also went through his training and professional background as well as the detailed test protocols in his laboratory before he got into the boost of his certificate.

He said he tested the hair sample from the SUV.


The DNA analyst testifies to cross – 9:32 a.m.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

Nicholas Bradford from Bode Technology said that the hair found on the SUV could not provide a usable DNA profile for testing.

“It is not unexpected that the hair shaft would not deliver to us,” said Bradford, so that the hair was transferred to a separate unit in the laboratory.

Bradford said Read lawyer Alan Jackson because of cross -questioned that the opportunities of the investigator Michael Proctors DNA were on taillight 1 to 76,000.

The chances for Bukhenik were significantly wider, said Bradford.

Jackson asked whether Bradford suggested that Proctor was “completely excluded”, and Bradford said he wasn't. Only that the data emphatically supports the exclusion of Proctor as the source of the DNA on the light.

Bradford said Jackson that he was not asked to test DNA samples from Brian Higgin, Kevin Albert, Brian Albert or Ken Berkowitz.

Higgins is an ATF agent that has exchanged coccentan texts with Read.

Bradford stepped down and the lawyers came into a sidebar.


The DNA analyst continues the certificate – 9:32 a.m.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

Nicholas Bradford from Bode Technology said he received the hair and an “extract from a taillight” and control samples.

He said that he also checked DNA swab of two investigators from the state police, Yuri Bukhenik and Michael Proctor.

Proctor was later released after he was forced to read raw, misogynistic texts during the first process, which he had overlooked friends and employees during the investigation.

Bradford said the taillight of three people showed, including at least one man.

John O'Keefe could “not be excluded,” said Bradford as a possible DNA employee.

It was more exponentially more likely that the DNA was a mixture of O'keefes and two “non -related individuals” in the rear light, in contrast to the DNA, which belongs “three non -related people”, said Bradford.

He said that neither Bukhenik's nor Proctors DNA could not be “visually excluded from the rear light”, but after further tests it was more exponentially more likely that their DNA was not in the light.

“That would be strong support for the exclusion,” said Bradford.

The defense has accused the prosecution of the manipulations on the rear light.


DNA analyst testifies – 9:19 a.m.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

Nicholas Bradford said prosecutor Adam Lally that Bode Technology Analysts take a number of steps to prevent cross-contamination of DNA samples, including the attraction of protective equipment.

He said that evidence is also made in the cooling storage so that the quality of the DNA is not broken down.

Bradford said he tested objects in the Read case that Bode received from State Police Crime Lab.

He said he tested the hair on Reads SUV and a separate “extract” that was submitted to the laboratory.


The next witness is Nicholas Bradford – 9:08 a.m.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

The public prosecutor Adam Lally called Nicholas Bradford to the stand on Monday morning.

Bradford is analyst at the Bode Technology Lab in Virginia, where prosecutors sent some objects for DNA tests.

Bradford began his testimony by going through his training and professional background.


Statement will be resumed on Monday – 8:31 a.m.

By Travis Andersen, Globe Staff

The certificate will be resumed on Monday in Karen Read's murder process before the Supreme Court of Norfolk.

The jurors heard on Friday from Ash Vallier, an analyst in the crime laboratory of the state police, who heard the right taillight on the SUV “mechanically” with a number of plastic pieces at the Fairview Road “mechanically”, where Read supported their SUV in the Boston police officer John O'Keefe.

Read lawyer David Yannetti asked Vallier on cross -interrogation:

“I can't,” said Vallier.

The defense claims that the law enforcement agencies had manipulated the Read SUV in the Canton Police Garage, where it was taken for processing.

Ash Vallier, right, a forensic scientist at the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab, said during the trial against Karen on Friday before the Supreme Court of Norfolk. Mark Stockwell

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