Attorneys argued over the evidence with Steingold emphasizing the several details that he considers questionable: Claims by Farmington Hills Police Sgt. Richard Wehby, now a lieutenant, that he could tell from security camera footage of shadows cast on an outdoors berm that the person who tossed Huranieh, 35, out an upper-story window was a male.
“I don’t think that’s science at all,” Steingold said. “There’s no way anyone can determine looking at this shadow whether it was a male or female.” Autopsy implications that Huranieh died from asphyxia and smothering.
“How was she smothered?” Steingold asked. “Where was she smothered? Where’s the evidence? If she was smothered, then she was overpowered.