On Day 3, Thomas Balboni testified as a fingerprint-analysis expert and matched the thumbprint on a pawn transaction form to Garcia's right thumbprint.
Expert witness· State Attorney's Office, Second Judicial Circuit
Thomas Balboni
Fingerprint examiner and investigator with the State Attorney's Office, Second Judicial Circuit, who testified as an expert in the 2019 Garcia–Magbanua trial.
AppearedGarcia–Magbanua
MentionedMagbanua Retrial
56 lines·6 proceedings·2 mentions·2 trials
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Balboni is useful for tracing two distinct strands of physical-evidence discussion: fingerprint evidence connected to Garcia in the 2019 joint trial and analyst support in the later Aucilla River gun investigation.
Thomas Balboni was a State Attorney's Office investigator with fingerprint-analysis expertise. In the Garcia–Magbanua 2019 Joint Trial, he testified about comparing Garcia's known fingerprints with a thumbprint on a pawn transaction form in Garcia's name and concluded that the print matched Garcia's right thumbprint. His testimony also addressed the form's listed phone number, date, and Miami address, and he confirmed that it contained no fingerprints for Magbanua. Cross-examination explored the limited scope of his work, including steps he had not taken beyond the fingerprint comparison, while juror questions addressed when Garcia's prints were taken and how long prints can remain identifiable on paper. In magbanua-retrial-2022, he was identified as an analyst who assisted the Aucilla River gun investigation, where investigators recovered and documented a gun described as a different make and model from the weapon used to kill Professor Markel.
Trial Record (6)
Assisted as an analyst during the Aucilla River gun investigation discussed in the trial.
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