Cellphone data, gun at issue in trial of suspects in St. Paul triple homicide - TwinCities.com
"On TV, they make the forensic crime stuff look exciting. But as a jury saw Thursday, in real life - even in a triple-murder investigation - it can be technical, complicated and mind-numbingly arcane.
And on a good day, you get to climb into a sewer and dig a revolver out of 2-1/2 years' worth of muck.
Jurors in the murder trial of Tyvarus Lindsey and Rashad Raleigh sat patiently through the dense testimony, much of which dealt with cellphones and the towers that carry their electronic signals. The nine men and five women on the jury and two alternates saw spreadsheet after spreadsheet, as well as a map-laden FBI analysis.
They heard terms such as "pilot channel" and "clutter database" and "propagation models" and "seizure times" and "antenna down-tilt."
Government prosecutors contend the cellphone records show that Lindsey, 29, and Raleigh, 33, and two other men were in the vicinity of 292 Burgess Ave. in St. Paul on the morning of March 23, 2007.
Shortly before sunrise that day, four men wearing masks and gloves kicked open the North End home's back door, rounded up the occupants, demanded drugs and money from them, and then killed three people. "
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