Baby Kate Trial: Testimony of Plant identifier Peter Howie Carrington

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One thing you will notice if you try to connect MSU's most locally-famous plant identifier Peter Howie Carrington and the Baby Kate trial is that he has eschewed the spotlight and kept his likeness as far away from the hoopla of this case as possible.  This was most evident when I FOIAed Michigan State University and asked for the research behind this case.  His name was always blacked out, as was the vast majority of his research.  This will be analyzed in a forensic manner shortly.

 

At the trial, his testimony was supplemental to the Plant Professor Frank Telewski, who earlier had previewed the findings of Mr. Carrington into the common vernacular and toured Mason County with that information in hand.

Peter Carrington is admitted as an expert in plant identification, and shows a graphic or two of the mostly microscopic plant bits found under and on the side of Sean Phillips' Seedless shoes.  His testimony effectively illustrates the science behind the forensics already put forth by Telewski. 

 

Though his graphics and his hands on exhibit loaned an air of profound interpretation about a pair of dirty shoes that may have been worn that day, the defense actually comes back once again with the refutation of this evidence, using the same tact she used before.  Finding that they could have come from a wet area, some may have come from dry areas, some could have come from just about anywhere in the United States or anywhere else for that matter (p 140).  

 

This is likely to be the man in charge of plant identifying for the search this weekend.  Due to his research of several months up to the point of trial, these plants could be located almost anywhere. 

NEXT UP:  The Trail of Baby Kate is on "The Trail of Sean Phillips Through Time and Space, June 29, 2011 Afternoon" with some interesting experimentations, speculations, inductions and deductions.