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(NewsNation) — A erstwhile elder lawman territory lawyer says the Los Angeles Police Department won’t request to find the origin of decease for Celeste Rivas Hernandez to bring charges successful the case.
"You tin inactive prosecute, you tin surely prosecute," Matt Murphy told "Banfield" successful a Tuesday appearance.
"But it does propulsion a wrinkle successful there. If you've conscionable got a decomposed torso, oregon depending connected what's available, what I would beryllium asking (about) if I was them is the hyoid bone. That's a bony successful the cervix that's accordant with strangulation. That's thing that doesn't spell distant with decomposition."
Detectives taking their clip with investigation
Hernandez’s remains were recovered astatine a Hollywood tow gait Sept. 8, decomposed successful vocalist D4vd's Tesla aft constabulary responded to complaints of a foul odor.
The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner announced her origin of decease has been deferred. Murphy says detectives are taking their clip to fig retired precisely what happened.
"There's a batch to untangle here, and it's important to remember, he's (D4vd) presumed innocent, right?" helium said. "And we know, based connected past history, determination are juries successful L.A. that volition entertain perfectly insane defence theories. And truthful they're crossing their T's and dotting their I's, and they're being methodical, which is precisely what they should beryllium doing."
Murphy added that detectives person forensically worked up D4vd's location from apical to bottom, looking for immoderate benignant of DNA grounds oregon "any instruments that whitethorn person been utilized to dismember her (Celeste)".
"They person to beryllium precise cautious astir the accusation they release," helium said. "But this is simply a murder, perchance a murder, successful the modern era. And the crushed I accidental potentially, we don't person a origin of decease yet. Now, she was dismembered; surely didn't bash that to herself."
D4vd's cellphone, machine grounds volition beryllium cardinal for investigators: Murphy
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to NewsNation that they raided D4vd’s home, looking for “blood evidence” to link to Hernandez.
Items, including a computer, were seen being taken by detectives, and they could beryllium important for investigators, Murphy acknowledged.
"Some of the things that were seen coming retired of that location were things similar computers and tablets, and that's precisely what they should beryllium looking for," helium said.
"And close now, astir apt arsenic we speak, determination is immoderate overworked, underpaid forensic technologist who's going done cellphones and computers and looking for immoderate grounds of that relationship."
While constabulary haven’t officially linked D4vd and the victim, they did find a leaked D4vd opus that mentions Celeste aggregate times. The track, which leaked connected Soundcloud successful December 2023, was titled “Celeste_Demo unfin.”
D4vd has breached the lease of his Hollywood Hills location amid an investigation, according to The Daily Mail.
