blood types and two different dna types indicating that additional blood from another person had been poured into cooper s vial. the likelihood is that they poured somebody else s blood into it after they poured blood on to a-41 and the t-shirt. much like when teenagers drink their parents alcohol, in order to conceal that, they have to fill that bottle back up with something else. cooper and his team eventually brought their claims of blood tampering to judge marilyn huff, requesting that daniel gregonis be called to testify. but, as in previous petitions, judge huff denied all of their requests. after more than 20 years on death row and numerous failed appeals, the courts now set kevin cooper s execution date for february 10, 2004.
cooper s defense. to kevin cooper s shock and the defense s shock, the testing came back saying that there was kevin s dna on a-41. but for hile, the dna results raised a red flag. back in 1983, the lab technician, daniel gregonis he testified that he had consumed a-41 during his testing. now gregonis was asked to make sure that a-41 still existed. we have a photograph of the envelope that shows the date that he took it out and when he resealed it. so we know that he had a-41 on his person for 24 hours before he returned it. he d also had nearby, in the lab, the vial of kevin cooper s blood that was taken from him when he was arrested. contrary to gregonis original testimony, the state now reported there was enough of
cigarette butts. the second time, they suddenly found two cigarette butts. clearly, they had been taken from the hideout house. and there was the blood evidence connecting cooper to the murders. this small speck labeled a-41. a-41 was examined by sheriff s department criminalist daniel gregonis. gregonis was a rookie at the time. proper procedure is to do blind testing. you test something and you don t know what the other person s blood is, and you re trying to see whether it s that person or not. but gregonis waited until he had kevin cooper s blood type. gregonis originally found a-41 did not match kevin cooper, but then he changed notes to show that it did. so, in fact, the testing actually showed that the blood drop was not from somebody with kevin s blood type. other evidence prosecutors claim linked cooper to the murders was a bloody footprint
a-41 for additional dna testing. results from the tan t-shirt also changed drastically. at the original trial, the t-shirt was only shown to have doug ryen s blood on it. when the t-shirt was tested at this time, there was additional blood located on the upper part of the t-shirt, across the chest that had not been noticed or photographed or even reported previous to this time. cooper s defense argued that the new blood on the t-shirt and the newly discovered blood found on a-41 could only have come from one place, the vial of cooper s blood that the lab technician daniel gregonis had access to. the defense would strengthen that assertion by taking the vial of cooper s blood to an independent lab for analysis. it was discovered that the vial contained two different
the defense s shock, the testing came back saying that there was kevin s dna on a-41. but for hile, the dna results raised a red flag. back in 1983, the lab technician, daniel gregonis he testified that he had consumed a-41 during his testing. now gregonis was asked to make sure that a-41 still existed. we have a photograph of the envelope that shows the date that he took it out and when he resealed it. so we know that he had a-41 on his person for 24 hours before he returned it. he d also had nearby, in the lab, the vial of kevin cooper s blood that was taken from him when he was arrested. contrary to gregonis original testimony, the state now reported there was enough of a-41 for additional dna testing.