Opinion ID: 147061
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Bierenbaum's defense

Text: The defense called one witness, Joel Davis. Davis had been in a bagel shop in Manhattan on Second Avenue in the '80's on the afternoon of July 7, 1985, and he noticed an attractive woman wearing a distinctive t-shirt with a non-English word on it. When two weeks later he saw posters of Katz, he identified her as the woman he had seen, and he called the police. He described her to the jury as deeply tanned, about five foot one, with a well-developed body. On cross-examination Davis admitted that he had told an investigator for the defense that the woman he'd seen was tall and statuesque, and explained that he had confused his description of the missing woman by likening her to two different women, one tall with her face and one short with her body. The prosecution called Katz's sister Alayne as a rebuttal witness. She provided a picture of Katz from the summer of 1985, and described her as less than five foot three, weighing approximately 110 pounds, with an A-cup bra size.