DAY FORTY-FIVE: Trial Against David Castillo
/Main Points of the Day
The prosecutors ask the court to not admit the expert testimony of the defense’s telecommunications expert Shaun Vodden arguing that parts of his analysis were submitted to the court in English and not in Spanish as is required. The prosecutors also complained that some of the submitted files could not be opened and thus accessed by all parties. The court took several hours to review all submitted files and ruled that the English translator sworn in to translate Vodden’s testimony would spend tomorrow translating parts of Vodden’s analysis that were not submitted in Spanish. The judges also ruled that all parties would spend part of tomorrow reviewing the files submitted by Vodden to ensure that all had a copy of all files (in Spanish) prior to hearing Vodden’s expert testimony.
The trial is convened for tomorrow morning.