The pre-trial court proceedings for accused killer Dustin Gran continued Friday with several more hours of questioning focused on a digital forensics expert and the work he performed in the case.
Gran, 25, is accused of beating Krista Pike to death in January of 2008 at the behest of then-16-year-old Brittany Navarra, who allegedly plotted Pike’s murder in an attempt to rekindle a relationship with Pike’s fiancé.
California Department of Justice criminalist Edwin Vargas spent three hours on the witness stand Friday discussing the extraction methods he used to pull data from Gran’s cell phone following Pike’s murder.
As a digital forensics analyst, Vargas’ testimony could prove a crucial factor in both cases as prosecutors allege Gran and Navarra exchanged incriminating text messages and photos of Pike’s corpse with their cell phones...