CW v. JACKSON                    05-CR-2608  

TRIAL TESTIMONY

DECEMBER 5, 2007               10:01 A.M.

WITNESS:    DET.  LARRY DUNCAN
LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE DEPARTMENT

CWA:             Uh, and detective, my, uh, last question to you, again, was, uh, with your years of experience and, how many, can you give us an estimate of how many robberies you’ve investigated over the years?

DUNCAN:     Uh, all together, or just street robberies?

CWA:             Let’s focus on street robberies.

DUNCAN:     Uh, street robberies, approximately 4000.

CWA:             Okay, and of course, have done this type of analysis of patterns and so forth.

DUNCAN:     I have done that analysis.

CWA:             Okay. In a general sense, and I’m sorry, in the course of, uh, analyzing this you yourself have, uh, been involved in interviewing the victims of these particular offenses, is that right?

DUNCAN:     I have.

CWA:             Okay, to say, I mean, you’re not just down at the headquarters looking and numbers and so on?

DUNCAN:     No, of course not. I’m out on the streets.

CWA:             Okay. Um, and in your experience in a general sense, uh, what can you say, generally speaking, about the, um, descriptions, including height, weight and other descriptors of victims that often turn out to be the case?

DUNCAN:     In a general sense, based on my sixteen-and-a-half years of experience working serial crimes, and even in every database, for example, the height-weight scenario is useless and they’re not even included, uh, in the analysis. There are exceptions to that and that would be an instance where some person was, uh, a giant, for example, or a person that was very, very small. And then I have found that a person under one of those two circumstances, evidence could be considered credible under those circumstances. And the, what you have here, in these violent crimes, is trauma, and the trauma affects these type of denominators.