The judge on the findings of the tests linking Havni to Rada's murder: "Not to give them weight would be far-reaching"

Before the DNA tests were done on the hairs found at the scene, the judge said in Zadorov's retrial that it was not a tie-breaking testimony, but if the hairs were found to be compatible, then their value would increase. The day clarified that the killer's identity will not be determined based on the findings, but the question is whether it will be added to the doubts that will help In Zadorov's acquittal

Eli Ashkenazi

10/19/2022

Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 7:37 p.m

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In the video: The court discusses the consequences of exposing a hypothesis that may match Adir Habani (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

"Until now we said that it is not a tiebreaker. Something has changed here. To say that it is cast concrete is going too far, but to say that it has no weight is also going too far," said Judge Asher Kola, the head of the court in Roman's trial, today (Wednesday). Zadorov, the accused in the murder of Tair Rada.

Kola referred to the findings of the mitochondrial DNA tests that Dr. Nurit Bobalil, the director of the laboratory at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, testified about today.

This is supplementary testimony regarding two hairs found at the scene of the murder, which was found to have a certain genetic match between them and Adir Habani - which is of a rarer frequency than previously thought.

In July, before the results of the last test arrived, Judge Kola said, referring to the DNA findings, that "we all know the value of this evidence.

It's not a tie-breaker, it has one value or another," and yet he pointed out that if more matching hairs are found, the value will obviously increase.

"To say that the finding has no weight is going too far."

Adir Habani (photo: official website, use according to section 27 a)

In her testimony today, Bobalil said that "Havni's hair profile is rare. There are two very rare mutations. It's a rare profile, it's hard to determine how much."

On the other hand, in the cross-examination, attorney Wiam Kabalavi from the prosecutor's office said that "the database they are relying on does not yet have validity.

It is not large enough and does not reflect the true picture of the population in Israel."

Attorney Kabalavi said that the prosecution agrees that the mitochondrial DNA can definitely rule out a person's belonging to the scene, but cannot affirmatively confirm a person's inventions at the scene. "There is no case in the world that has been decided on Based on mitochondrial DNA," he said.

Judge Kola clarified that "it is clear that the murderer has not been determined according to this finding", now the question is what legal weight will the judges give to the finding in the question of reasonable doubt.

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Tair Rada (Photo: Gini)

Now the testimony of the defense witness Dr. Doron Behar, who is an expert in genetic genealogy, will begin. He will testify about the rarity of Havni's genetic profile and the statistical possibility of a match to two hairs found at the scene of the murder.

It is not possible to perform a nuclear DNA test on a hair without a root, but A test of mitochondrial DNA. In contrast to the certainty of identification obtained from the nuclear DNA, which is found in a hair with a root, in the test of the mitochondrial DNA, which is extracted from a hair without a root, it is difficult to determine the degree of compatibility with a particular person and it can only be determined that there is some statistical probability. Because The difficulty of finding a match Mitochondrial DNA test results are used in criminal proceedings mainly for the purpose of denying a connection and not for the purpose of determining identity.

Supreme Court Judge Hanan Meltzer wrote in his decision to hold a retrial for Roman Zadorov in this matter that "there has not yet been a clear ruling regarding the evidentiary status of mitochondrial evidence - I believe that it is better that the panel that will discuss the retrial will, as far as it deems appropriate, also examine the possibility of discussing the consequences that may arise, If anything, to the mitochondrial evidence claimed to have been found here."

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