in Re Gerald J Durden

Court of Appeals of Texas·Decided August 5, 2015·No. 14-15-00579-CR·Published

Opinion

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•«EVH>ENCE RECORDS AFinD^VIT" Gerald Durdea, Cauae #98S464i

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Forensic Report: iDBNTi^inz Cash No. 4.o?5o Ruth Yvonne Burton 929 Preston. Suite 200 Houston, TX 770C2 Phone: (713)-224-US0 Fax; (7 i 3} 22.4-2339 in Reference Tdr&erald Durden

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Tubulated herein are- the test results on the samples listed belov, Item Number 97688 Genital Swab Picked up from •Horn's County ,v,*cfical j Examiners Office on April !?., £002 97^89 Cutting from Panties Picked up from Harris County Medicc! Examiners Office on April 1'/. 0002 ?7£37 aiood Stsir, Card' Lsf.eift::j 'laqu-c-.c '.orcd Picfcsd up from Hani's Cc./niv M»siicoi D.urden' examiners Office on Ap.i.'l !9.'ico2 97328 Buccal Swab Labeled 'Gerald Dn-den' Collected by Tanya Kolms-s on >nrii } 12, 2002

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•«EVH>ENCE RECORDS AFinD^VIT" Gerald Durdea, Cauae #98S464i

STA.TE OF TEXAS )( | cownf OF HAJWS K j • My name u>. 1„^ ahdVr evideucs mor* cust^aa for the Barris County I art) employed as the , fciedUsl IBxaakiwf's Office. Mj| acaddress ud.tatophwife aumber a»1S85 0£Z» Houston TeM5 ,*.79frM» bW«^-^^"to-"Md,—"^ _a^dyof^e^^ c^that^wi^

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June A, 2QQ'i

Forensic Report: iDBNTi^inz Cash No. 4.o?5o Ruth Yvonne Burton 929 Preston. Suite 200 Houston, TX 770C2 Phone: (713)-224-US0 Fax; (7 i 3} 22.4-2339 in Reference Tdr&erald Durden

Re: Fo?.zhp.~ evidence

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Tubulated herein are- the test results on the samples listed belov, Item Number 97688 Genital Swab Picked up from •Horn's County ,v,*cfical j Examiners Office on April !?., £002 97^89 Cutting from Panties Picked up from Harris County Medicc! Examiners Office on April 1'/. 0002 ?7£37 aiood Stsir, Card' Lsf.eift::j 'laqu-c-.c '.orcd Picfcsd up from Hani's Cc./niv M»siicoi D.urden' examiners Office on Ap.i.'l !9.'ico2 97328 Buccal Swab Labeled 'Gerald Dn-den' Collected by Tanya Kolms-s on >nrii } 12, 2002

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vs.

Gerald J. Durden

Defendant.

AFFIDAVIT OF HARRY T. BONNELL. M.D.

I, Harry J. Bdnnell, M.D., declare as follows:

1.. I am a medical doctor, currently employed as a Forensic Pathologist licensed to practice Medicine in the State of California. A true and correct copy of my curriculum vitae is attached as Exhibit A.

2. I attended Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, D.C., and graduated ' from that program in1979. I have taught at. the University of Washington, Madigan Army Medical Center, King Count)' Corrections Center, Uniformed Services University ofHealth Sciences, University ofCincinnati College of Medicine, and the School of Medicine of the University of California, San- Diego.

3. From 1999-2001,1 was Chief Deputy Medical Examiner for the Officer of the Medical Examiner in San Diego, California. I have, also been Chief Deputy Coroner and Director ofForensic Pathology of Hamilton County, Ohio, Staff Pathologist in the Forensic Sciences Department at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and Assistant Medical Examiner of King County, Washington.

4. I have personally performed over 7000 autopsies and provided, sworn testimony more than 585 times.

5. Inpreparing this affidavit, Ihave reviewed your appeals records, DNA records and a complete trial transcript

6. Had I been consulted by defense counsel, I would have advised the following and been willing totestify to same at trial; I am still willing to provide testimony in mis matter.

Page 1 of 3 DNA analysis of material on a swab used to obtain a sample from tlie external genitalia of Laquvea Durden showed only DNA from Ms. Durden DNA analysis of fabric from her panties found DNA consistent with corning from Gerald Durden but: inconsistent with identifying him as tlie definite source, i.e. there were not the required matches at 13 loci In fact, we do not know how . many loci matched, if any (See next bullet). Page 3 of the report issued 3/28/02 by the Harris County Medical Examiner's - labs, their file number 0107240042 and cross referenced as CL01-0270, has the results blacked out thus concealing the results from any reader, mcluding Gerald Durden, thus depriving him of discovery evidence which might be exculpatory. Laquvea Durden recanted her testimony to a friend after tlie trial but it would be best to get Ms Durden to sign an affidavit. The trial court ordered that hair samples under the control of the Harris County Medical Examiner laboratory be subjected to DNA analysis; they did not submit the hair samples for analysis, violating tlie court order. Analysis could have been, exculpatory for Mr. Darden Emergency Room Doctor Clifford Mishaw acted as an agent of the state in collecting samples from Ms. Durden; he had completed his examination of her and subsequent harvesting of samples had no medical purpose and was not tlie practice of medicine, Dr. Mishaw deprived-Gerald Durden of evidence of possible exculpatory value by failing to follow tlie established protocol for collecting material for a "rape kit". He failed to obtain combed head hair samples, pulled head hair samples, oral swabs and anal swabs. His rationale for doing so showed a definite prosecutorial bias in that he would expect to find material from. Gerald. Durden because he was tlie father and suspect, but he totally ignored tlie fact that had the samples come from someone else, it could be exculpatory. - In my opinion, trial counsel did not adequately represent Gerald Durden by failing to have an expert review tlie discovery, failing to identify the concealed evidence (DNA results), and not eliciting the basic .facts of what the DNA analysis signified.

Page 2 of 3 7. Iam not being reimbursed in aiiy manner for rendering this opinion.

I declare under penalty of perjury under tlie laws of the State ofCalifornia that the foregoinc true and correct.

Executed thisJ?^ day of April 2015 in San Diego, California.

HARRY J. BONNELL, M.D.

Anotary public orother officer completing this certificate verifies only theidentity ofthe Individual who signed the document to which this certificate isattached, and not thetruthfulness, accuracy, or validityof that document.

Jurat State cfCalifornia County of Q> QjV\ VI Subscribed and swonuo (orbffmried} .I beforejne on this^<-wlO Any of .Av/Uv 20IS. ^bv H&Mi^ \\
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