I was involved in securing copies of the laboratory’s notebooks. Counsel for
Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin met with police personnel, with Kermit Channell
of the Crime Laboratory, Circuit Prosecutor Brent Davis, and other persons in a
conference room at the West Memphis Police Department. We reviewed a number
of binders that were identified as notes of criminalist Lisa Sakevicius. Afterwards,
we went to the Arkansas Crime Laboratory. Mr. Channell had arranged to lay out
all the Crime Laboratory material that he was producing, including notes from the
Medical Examiner’s Office and other laboratory notes. At some later point in time,
my office received a box of materials from the Arkansas Crime Laboratory
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identifying the materials as copies of laboratory notebooks, including hair slides
and other materials that we had been shown in those two days. I arranged to have
the material copied for other counsel. (BMHR 2274). [End of session of August
13, 2009, BMHR 2275. The beginning of the session of August 14, 2009 is on the
same page.]
