Expert witness
Robert Shawn Yao
TPD forensic supervisor whose assumption-dependent bullet-path opinion favored a shooter near six feet tall; he acknowledged formal trajectory analysis was not possible.
Appeared Garcia–Magbanua
86 lines · 5 appearances · 4 mentions
About
Testified as the Tallahassee Police Department forensic supervisor whose bullet-path analysis placed the shooter at roughly six feet tall, an opinion admitted over discovery and Daubert objections and then tested across two cross-examinations on Day 2.
Trial Record (9)
GM Garcia–Magbanua Sep 26, 2019 – Oct 11, 2019
Appearances (5)
Direct
Robert Shawn Yao - Direct
Day 1 Direct Robert Shawn Yao - Direct
Day 2 Cross Robert Shawn Yao - Cross
Day 2 Cross Robert Shawn Yao - Cross
Day 2 Redirect Robert Shawn Yao - Redirect
Day 2 Mentioned (4)
Cross
Anthony Clark - Cross
Day 1 Procedural Yao Daubert Ruling and Rivera-Attorney Depositions TPD forensic supervisor whose updated bullet trajectory opinion was the subject of both the discovery motion and the Daubert challenge.
Day 2 Procedural Rivera-Attorney Privilege and Brannon Sequestration Issues
Day 3 Closing Closing Argument - Saam Zangeneh
Day 10