Jurors in the Albert Gaxiola trial heard from a pathologist yesterday, two detectives, a Minuteman and one of the defendant's neighbors.
Dr. David Winston testified about the horrifying injuries Junior Flores and Brisenia Flores sustained on May 30, 2009. Gina Gonzalez stayed in the courtroom, as she did during the first two trials, but the rest of her family opted to stay outside.
Minuteman Chuck Stonex's testimony was the same as during the first two trials and yet different. Because of the rules of evidence, Stonex wasn't allowed to repeat anything that came out of the mouths of Jason Bush and Shawna Forde.
He was allowed, however, to tell jurors that he met Forde during a Minuteman operation in October 2008 and was supposed to meet her at a barbecue in Hereford on May 30, 2009, but plans changed at the last minute.
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Stonex testified about bringing medical supplies to Albert Gaxiola's house, treating a gunshot wound sustained by Bush and watching Forde give Laine Lawless a set of keys and a phone number. Stonex says Lawless was to call the number once she got to Tucson so she could deliver the keys to someone.
Prosecutors allege that someone is Gaxiola and he drove Forde's Honda Element from Tucson back to Arivaca.
Arivaca resident Byron Easter, a friend of Inga Hartman's, was called to corroborate much of her testimony about when she saw certain vehicles at Gaxiola's house.Â
Detectives Jill Murphy and Robert Svec testified about collecting evidence at the crime scene.
From a defense perspective, the big news was that footprints leading from the house through a wash and to a road marred with tire tracks was never photographed. Nor were the tire prints.
U.S. Border Patrol Agent Don Williams testified Wednesday he and deputies tracked the footprints, but Murphy said she was never told about them.
She would have considered both the footprints and tire tracks "relevant" and confirmed they would've been photographed and entered into various databases for comparison purposes.
Svec testified he was focusing on the front yard because that is where blood droplets were found, along with a fully-loaded handgun and Mexican coins. He didn't know about the prints, either.
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