article_snippet: A judge is considering whether 50 pounds of potatoes and a produce box can be used as evidence in the trial of a man accused of killing six-year-old Etan Patz in Manhattan in 1979.
article_snippet: Part of Hernandez's job at the store was to lug boxes of produce, soda and beer up and down the basement stairs into the shop in SoHo.
article_snippet: Bizarre request: The defense for Pedro Hernandez (pictured in court in November 2012) have asked to use 50lbs of potatoes in court to show he would not have been able to life Etan Patz's body as he claimed . '
article_snippet: I walked to the right,' he said of a banana box during he videotaped confession. '
article_snippet: Attorney Harvey Fishbein suggests Hernandez was scrawny, weighing only about 115 pounds, and could not have carried a heavy box that far.
article_snippet: Attorney Harvey Fishbein is asking to bring in the 50 pounds of potatoes and the produce box for jurors to demonstrate the weight of the body.
article_snippet: Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon argued that the method for showing how heavy a heavy box would be is unscientific and should not be shown to jurors because it would be wrong. '
article_snippet: It is incompetent evidence and unscientific because carrying a body is vastly different than potatoes,' Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said.
article_snippet: It would be the second piece of unconventional evidence on whether the confession is plausible.
article_snippet: Earlier in the trial, prosecutors showed jurors a photo of a little boy crouching in a produce box, intending to show that Etan's body would have fit into such a box.
article_snippet: We need to be allowed to introduce' a heavy box.
highlights_snippet: Suspect Pedro Hernandez previously told authorities Suspect Pedro Hernandez put the boy's body in a banana box and carried the boy's body on Suspect Pedro Hernandez shoulder before dumping the boy's body .
  
highlights_snippet: His defense team, who say he falsely confessed to the 1979 murder because he is mentally ill are asking a judge if His defense team, who say he falsely confessed to the 1979 murder because he is mentally ill can enter 50lbs of potatoes - the weight Etan was said to be when Suspect Pedro Hernandez disappeared - and a produce box as evidence .
  