Nicholas Rasberry murder trial: Craig Kelloway may have been lying down
原始发布日期： 2015-10-14 发布者：中和字变大 字变小
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Craig Kelloway (left) and Nicholas Rasberry pictured together in Rasberry's home just before Kelloway died of multiple stab wounds on May 4, 2013. This photo has been entered into evidence at Rasberry's second-degree murder trial. It's possible blood splatters in accused murderer Nicholas Rasberry's home might have come from Craig Kelloway being stabbed while lying on the floor, a police forensic expert told court Thursday. Blood stains on furniture and other surfaces in Rasberry`s Auburn Bay home could have come from a source low enough to be a prone victim, Const. Jodi Arns testified. "Is it consistent with leaning over a victim and stabbing?" said prosecutor Matthew Block, referring to blood droplets that had spurted onto a surface in Rasberry`s living room. Said Arns: "it would have had to have come from a blood source below that area." When asked again, the city police officer said she couldn't say with certainty if those stains came from a prone Kelloway, whose blood was found in Rasberry's kitchen, living room and on his clothes. "it`s dependent on the height of that person...there are a lot of variables," she said. Kelloway’s T-shirt and hoodie, she said, were saturated with his own blood. Court has already heard Rasberry told first responders that he fought off a sexual assault from Kelloway, 31, after meeting him for the first time earlier that day over drinks and a barbecue on May 4, 2013. Defence lawyer Hersh Wolch challenged Arn's credentials in offering the hypothesis but was overruled by Court of Queen`s Bench Justice Robert Hall. The lawyer also suggested the blood flung throughout the kitchen and living room could have come from paramedics using electronic resuscitators on Kelloway, trauma scissors and Kelloway coughing and spitting up blood. Arns said it's possible. Court on Thursday also heard 57 minutes of audiotape covering Rasberry's arrest processing on May 5, 2013. In it, he expresses surprise that Kelloway had died when told he's being charged with murder. And he tells Const. Lynn Macdonald of a cut on a finger he said was caused innocently. "I was tilling my garden this morning, got cut and bled all over my hand," he said. On Friday, court is expected to view a video recording of Rasberry"s police interview.
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