The complexities of DNA evidence in the re-trial for AJ Armstrong

Astros game tomorrow next. DNA evidence often helps to prove a prosecutor's case but not in the capital murder trial for Antonio Armstrong junior. Fox twenty six is Damali Keith is live at the Harris County criminal court house to explain why Donnelly.

Yeah DNA expert testified this afternoon and although she is a witness for the prosecution what she told jurors did not prove who murdered former NFL player and Tony Armstrong senior. And his wife don Armstrong. Jurors often want to know a killer's DNA was found at a crime scene however in the capital murder trial for Antonio Armstrong junior who's charged with murdering his parents as they slept.

DNA expert Courtney had says this case isn't that simple had says because kids and parents share DNA it's hard to pinpoint or exclude any Armstrong family member. As the one who left touch DNA on the gun on the pen used to write the I've been watching note that was left beside the gun. And the kitchen drawer where the pen and paper were retrieved Antonio senior and don Armstrong were shot to death in their Beller area home.

In twenty sixteen sixteen years old a firearms expert also took the witness stand saying the murder weapon was a semiautomatic not automatic meeting the killer had to decide to pull the trigger to shoot Mr Armstrong twice. And Antonio senior once prosecutors say Antonio junior killed his parents as they became increasingly upset with him for failing grades alcohol and drug use. Defense attorneys point to flirty text messages between Antonio junior and his girlfriend and hour and a half before his parents were murdered within ninety minutes of him supposedly executing his parents he's having Kissy faces with his girlfriend- that makes no sense whatsoever.

And I've always thought that these text messages actually help us. Way more than I do with enormous.