Bisard hearing focuses on blood vials

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The judge hearing the David Bisard case is giving prosecutors until July 20 to submit more details on two vials of blood taken from the officer after a fatal crash.

Bisard had a hearing Thursday focusing on the blood vials, after one of the vials was taken from a refrigerated spot in an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department property room.

Bisard is accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed a motorcyclist and seriously hurt two others.

The prosecution would like to do more alcohol testing to prove Bisard was drunk at the time of the crash. They also would like to do DNA testing to prove the blood does indeed belong to Bisard.

But defense attorneys don't want either vial tested. They argue that the chain of custody - or who was in possession of the blood at various times - is so distorted that neither the integrity of the vials nor the integrity of the process can be trusted.

The judge has, as a result, given prosecuting attorneys until July 20 to submit a spreadsheet detailing the chain of custody for both vials of blood since the crash involving Bisard. He’ll rule on whether to allow further testing of both vials July 30.

Meanwhile, another drama unfolded in a flurry of motions Thursday.

The defense accused the prosecution of misleading the court about what prosecutors actually knew about the movement of the vials. The prosecution vehemently denies misleading the court, and this week the state filed a motion asking for the defense to be admonished. The judge ruled that he would not ask the committee that disciplines attorneys to investigate attorneys in this case. Instead he advised both the defense and prosecution that they could report conduct they deemed unethical to the committee themselves.