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What Happens When DNA Evidence Goes to Court.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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What Happens When DNA Evidence Goes to Court? #Bryan Kohberger #knife sheath button #smoking gun evidence #PoliceOffTheCuff The discussion centers around how law enforcement uses a court order, like subpoenas, to obtain DNA. Experts weigh in on why this admissible evidence is hard to throw out in court. Stay informed about the criminal justice system with Police Off the Cuff.

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0:00.0

Phil, your thoughts on that?

0:02.3

Yeah.

0:03.3

Well, once you have a subpoena or you have a search warrant and it's presented to a DNA company,

0:09.5

they really have to follow it.

0:11.0

And I would believe that at some point they might in the future, I guess they would notify

0:17.5

the person that law enforcement was looking into that DNA, but that would be down the line.

0:22.2

So I don't think that there was a leg to stand on in court to throw the DNA evidence out.

0:26.8

We do believe that it was Brian Colberg's DNA on the snap because of the fact that the DNA was there,

0:32.6

and it was linked to his father, as Barbara just said.

0:35.2

And when they did surveillance on the home, he was throwing

0:38.4

garbage out, other acts of suspiciousness, throwing garbage out in the neighbor's garbage.

0:45.4

Mike always says consciousness of guilt, wearing gloves, cleaning the car, all the different

0:49.7

things that he did. But with regard to that DNA on that knife sheet, we know from his Amazon searches

0:55.3

that there was an Amazon purchase of a K-bar knife with a sheet and a shopperner

1:00.4

approximately eight months before the murders. And then there was searches after the murders

1:04.6

to try and purchase another one. I don't think there was one actually purchased. However,

1:09.5

when they went into his Amazon account,

1:12.2

they did see that there was some scrolling and looking for another K-Barr knife. So all of

1:17.8

the things that we're talking about with regard to the K-Barr knife, very, very powerful evidence.

1:23.4

DNA that is really unrefutable. Once they had the father's DNA, they linked it to him.

1:29.1

I'm certain that once he was arrested, they did a swab and they matched it to the DNA that

1:34.3

was found on the tab, on the snap of the knife sheet, the K-Bahn knife sheet.

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