this tied genzler to the killing. a short time later, after hearing about the incident in the media, one of genzler s friends turned over a knife that was to belong to genzler. it was consistent with the size of the wound. it was basically a 4-inch single-bladed knife. it was consistent with the depth of the wound and other dimensions of the wound. and the friend also turned over a bloody shirt. tests revealed the blood on the shirt was that of the victim, dusty harless. the blood was on the front of the shirt inconsistent with genzler s version of the incident. had genzler been underneath dusty on his stomach when he stabbed him, dusty s blood would have been on the back of genzler s shirt, not the front. the fact that the majority of the blood was on the front, it seems a more likely theory that it was a front, face-to-face confrontation.
one brawl that she admitted. after she d been insulted in a bar, he took a guy out and beat him bad in the alley and she had heard of several other fights where he was always pretty much the winner. he s a good fighter, apparently. it was now coming out that i had not been completely truthful in my original testimonies. and the reason i had said that is because i didn t want to feed the defense any information that they would use against dusty in the case. from the beginning, david genzler described in specific detail how dusty held him to the ground. to see if this was possible, the defense consulted ned blass, a two-time national collegiate wrestling champion and member of the wrestling hall of fame. blass said that genzler s
based on the facts of the case, based on the eyewitnesses, based on the periphery witnesses after the fact, i felt we had a murder case here. i can t believe i actually took another man s life. i thought i got the guy in the shoulder. i didn t know he was going to die. david genzler was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of dusty harless. he was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. which in california means life. people don t get parole when they have indeterminate life sentences like that. while in prison, genzler continued to maintain he had acted in self-defense, and he hoped that one day he would get a second chance to prove his innocence.
the defendant s initial attorney, jerry blank, was ruled not to be able to represent him because of some technical issues. the court of appeals said that that denied mr. genzler the right to the counsel of his choice and reversed it on that ground. in preparing for the second trial, genzler s new defense team found something in dusty harless background that made genzler s claim of self-defense more believable. numerous witnesses came forward to say dusty harless had a reputation for starting fights. they brought people in that said my son was a street brawler. i don t know how they found them, but they did find some people that weren t really a dusty fan. in addition, toxicology tests
himself in. obviously he knew he stabbed someone but didn t know the extent of that wound. when he had learned that this person had died, that s when he contacted an attorney. genzler refused to tell police where the car was, and he also refused to give them the clothes he wore that night and the knife. what his story is, i don t know. he s never given us a statement. genzler looked very studious. he had the little glasses, tall, lanky guy. he did not look like someone you would expect to get in a street brawl, much less kill someone. but several eyewitnesses disagreed. does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty? don t avoid it. resolve it. our new formula with a special conditioning ingredient