Post by scotkaz on Sept 4, 2007 13:16:30 GMT -5
In the Dennis Buick, police found bood determined to be of the same type (A, B, 0) as Robin Dennis's blood.
Carolyn Young had seen Robin sitting in the passenger seat of the car several weeks earlier, bleeding, because Chris Dennis had "back handed her a few times"
Mary Kay McDuffie also recalled this same fight. According to McDuffie, Chris Dennis banged Robin's head into the dash four or five times. After that, Robin came into the house with her face bloody.
On the exterior of the right door of the Buick a partial shoe impression was found. Another shoe print was found near the centre of the dash. Both prints contained a common herring bone style pattern.
Chris Dennis' shoes were never examined and compared with the prints.
Mason's shoes were compared with the print pattern, but the prints were not of sufficient quality to make any definitive identification,
Nevertheless the State relied on this evidence in a closing argument.
Mason was denied an independent expert.
Panties were recovered from the trunk of the Buick. This second pair of panties also had semen on them. No analysis of this semen was ever done.
Mason's requests for expert analysis of this semen were denied.
Robin Dennis' body was found February 13 1993. Her blue jeans pulled down round her ankles. Her underwear was also pulled down in the jeans.
Semen was found in the panties.
According to the State's expert, the location of the semen on the panties indicated that the semen must have been deposited while the panties were pulled up, indicating that Robin Dennis had the panties on after she had sex, and that she was not killed immediately after having sex.
There was no evidence of trauma to the genitalia, or any other evidence to indicate that Robin Dennis had engaged in anything but consensual sex.
A black jacket beloning to Robin Dennis was also recovered from the munitions shed.
The coat was covered with mud and plant material which appeared to be thistles and burrs.
Mason's clothing had no mud or burrs. Mason was denied a soil and debris expert.
Shortly after Robin Dennis's disappearance, Arthur Burchett observed that Chris Dennis' hands were bruised when Chris Dennis visited his home.
Dennis reported he got the bruises from beating the walls of his house. As the two talked Chris Dennis said, "If I had a gun. I had to get rid of it, and I threw it in the field." and "He did it".
Despite the presentation of this evidence, and the substantial evidence to demonstrate that Mason could not have been in the locations the state claimed, the jury convicted Mason of Aggravated murder, the sole statutory aggravating circumstance (that the murder was committed during the course of a rape), having a weapon while under disability, and the seperate charges of rape.
Carolyn Young had seen Robin sitting in the passenger seat of the car several weeks earlier, bleeding, because Chris Dennis had "back handed her a few times"
Mary Kay McDuffie also recalled this same fight. According to McDuffie, Chris Dennis banged Robin's head into the dash four or five times. After that, Robin came into the house with her face bloody.
On the exterior of the right door of the Buick a partial shoe impression was found. Another shoe print was found near the centre of the dash. Both prints contained a common herring bone style pattern.
Chris Dennis' shoes were never examined and compared with the prints.
Mason's shoes were compared with the print pattern, but the prints were not of sufficient quality to make any definitive identification,
Nevertheless the State relied on this evidence in a closing argument.
Mason was denied an independent expert.
Panties were recovered from the trunk of the Buick. This second pair of panties also had semen on them. No analysis of this semen was ever done.
Mason's requests for expert analysis of this semen were denied.
Robin Dennis' body was found February 13 1993. Her blue jeans pulled down round her ankles. Her underwear was also pulled down in the jeans.
Semen was found in the panties.
According to the State's expert, the location of the semen on the panties indicated that the semen must have been deposited while the panties were pulled up, indicating that Robin Dennis had the panties on after she had sex, and that she was not killed immediately after having sex.
There was no evidence of trauma to the genitalia, or any other evidence to indicate that Robin Dennis had engaged in anything but consensual sex.
A black jacket beloning to Robin Dennis was also recovered from the munitions shed.
The coat was covered with mud and plant material which appeared to be thistles and burrs.
Mason's clothing had no mud or burrs. Mason was denied a soil and debris expert.
Shortly after Robin Dennis's disappearance, Arthur Burchett observed that Chris Dennis' hands were bruised when Chris Dennis visited his home.
Dennis reported he got the bruises from beating the walls of his house. As the two talked Chris Dennis said, "If I had a gun. I had to get rid of it, and I threw it in the field." and "He did it".
Despite the presentation of this evidence, and the substantial evidence to demonstrate that Mason could not have been in the locations the state claimed, the jury convicted Mason of Aggravated murder, the sole statutory aggravating circumstance (that the murder was committed during the course of a rape), having a weapon while under disability, and the seperate charges of rape.