Osceola SO Kristen Brewer, Bones' dog handler, Cadaver dog

Osceola SO Kristen Brewer K-9 handler first on the stand this morning.  Brewer is patrol supervisor and handles K-9 Bones.Sidebar. State pros. Linda Drane Burdick asks Brewer about training K-9 Bones. Brewer said K-9 Bones trained with placenta, blood, semen and other items. Brewer smiles when asked to identify Bones in a photo.Brewer said K-9 Bones' final trained alert on human remains is to sit. Brewer describes diff. areas where Bones alerted, including a landfill.  Brewer said Bones alerted on bones after human skull found in another area. State showing Bones' credibility as cadaver dog. K-9 Bones used in out of county searches. K-9 Bones indicates human remains by pick head up, fluffing up tail, pawing at surface dirt, leaving and not returning. Sidebar (2) called by state.
Brewer now speaks about K-9 Bones at the CA  home on Hopesprings Drive. Bones was the second cadaver dog, after K-9 Gerus, to search the property. OCSO Forgey said he wanted Brewer and K-9 Bones to check backyard.  Brewer describes how K-9 Bones searched yard. 

Brewer says they (she and Bones) went into yard. She gave him command to do search. He immediately went near pool then porch..  K-9 Bones went around pool, corners of the area, about 3-4 minutes in backyard. "Sniffing pretty hard" in on… (cont).  Brewer identifies pix of backyard, showing Caylee's playhouse.

Brewer says they (she and Bones) went into yard. She gave him command to do search. He immediately went near pool then porch..She says he checked corners and there was an area of interest. He gave a final alert (sit) in one portion of yard. Brewer is drawing same circle as Forgey did to where Bones alerted. Day 2 Bones gave no alerts. Sgt. Brewer says there were a lot of crime scene investigators out there. Lots of dirt, mulch, landscaped had been disturbed by investigators.

 Baez now quizzes Brewer about K-9 Bones' training, alerts, etc. Brewer agrees cadaver dogs can alert on decomposing matter from living person. Baez asks if a drop of blood comes out of his finger and he walks away - the dog would alert to where it dropped-Brewer says correct.Baez points out the dog can alert to things from a live person. a dog can't tell the source. 
 Baez> "Dogs are  more of a tool than conclusive indicator of human decomposition, especially when you don't have a body."  Brewer is excused.
CA appears to be getting paler as trial pushes on. She appears to be weak.
Osborne was asked by Yuri Melich, in August  2008 ,  to do a keyword search for chloroform. The keyword search was both entered spelled correctly and incorrectly. She found information in "deleted space."  Osborne was able to obtain a complete Internet file in the Firefox browser.  This was lucky as the file was not overwritten.  Osborne states the file was complete as determined by her supervisor, who is an expert.