I did overstate the case here in saying that Tink Thompson accepted Odum's change of recollection. I sloppily stopped the video too soon. Tink does suggest Odum mentally "filled in," probably on the basis of CE 2011, what "must have occurred" once he recalled having visited with Wright in Wright's office during the WC investigation. Again, we're talking about an 82-year-old Odum 38 years after the events in question. Tink, for obvious reasons, has him sharp as a tack when he doesn't recall being in Wright's office at all and a dissembling old fool when, a few hours later, he does vaguely recall and then fills in the blanks by thinking he must have been there for the reasons stated in CE 2011 because he can't think of any other reason he would've been there. This seems entirely plausible to me, but I can see why a CT salesman like Tink does what he does with it. Why would 82-year-old Odum, 38 years after the fact, have any reason to do anything other than give his best shot at recalling? If he had an agenda, he never would have met with Thompson and Aguilar in the first place or initially have flatly denied what CE 2011 says.
Wow, you should be on Dancing with the Stars. You didn't even miss a beat.
This whole question of would it be admitted in an imaginary hypothetical trial is an irrelevant red herring. Anybody can imagine whatever outcome they like. The real issue is, can you show with any confidence whatsoever that CE-399 is the same bullet that Tomlinson found at Parkland? The Lance approach is to just have faith that it is, unless it can be shown that it is not.
