MALTREATMENT DETERMINATION - Exhibit O

The State said that a note that Steve had made on his iPhone on March 22nd synced to the Cloud on August 3rd. In fact, the note, containing the bitcoin address appeared in the Cloud and synced to Steve's phone. Had he truly been the one to make the note and then delete it, it would have been deleted from the Cloud by August 3rd. Furthermore, it would have synced immediately to the Cloud, not taken 4 and a half months. 

MALTREATMENT DETERMINATION - time of death & scopolamine

 "... the testimony on time of death was then internally contradictory and misleading to the jury."

"... these results only provide a snapshot of her drug concentrations at death. They do not permit any reliable estimation of what dose or doses she took, or when she took the drug."

MALTREATMENT DETERMINATION - Exhibit C

Prosecutor Fred Fink said that, "it was absolutely vital for the State to prove 'dogdaygod' was, in fact, Stephen Allwine." It was only Mark Lanterman who suggested they were one and the same. The F.B.I. had previously investigated the case and did not connect the two. 

MALTREATMENT DETERMINATION - Exhibits B & N

 A cyber forensics expert for the defense could have contested the State's witness. 

Furthermore, a study has shown that cyber forensics is not as impartial as prosecutors would like jurors to think it is. 

A hierarchy of expert performance (HEP) applied to digital forensics: Reliability and biasability in digital forensics decision making

MALTREATMENT DETERMINATION - Exhibit A

The arrival of the medical examiner to the crime scene at 11:31 PM puts Amy's death sometime after 5:31 PM, after Steve had left. Although the prosecutor's case depended on Amy being murdered in the afternoon, when the ME examined her at 11:31 PM, he said Amy had died 4-6 hours earlier.

MALTREATMENT DETERMINATION - 12 - Conclusion

 

MALTREATMENT DETERMINATION - 11 - Evidence points to an alternative perpetrator