Forensic Aspects: A Christmas Story

A few years ago I was retained by the defense in a case to deter­mine if a “firearm” was operational.

The firearm turned out to be a Crossman CO2 pow­ered BB pis­tol. With some minor mod­i­fi­ca­tions, yes it was in fact “operational”.

I informed the attor­ney the evi­dence was oper­a­tional, but not a “firearm”.

Then the state changed

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Case Story : Aim High

Military crim­i­nal defense attor­neys con­tacted me to aide in the defense of a US ser­vice­man who was charged with com­mit­ting a drive-by shoot­ing. I reviewed the case mate­r­ial, and said I didn’t think I would be able to help much, because the evi­dence I needed to exam­ine had been destroyed when the gov­ern­ment was collecting

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Air Rifle Homicide

A crim­i­nal defense attor­ney asked me to look into a homi­cide a few months ago that involved an air rifle as the mur­der weapon.

The state con­tended that the defen­dant shot the vic­tim in an apart­ment, put their body into a car, and torched it. Then hid/disposed of the air rifle.

The defense the­ory of the case was

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Learn Something New

I was recently con­tacted by a defense attor­ney to per­form some firearms examination.

The case hadn’t been inves­ti­gated by the state yet, so I was the first sci­en­tist to exam­ine the evi­dence. During the course of the exam­i­na­tion, I made some obser­va­tions that were not easy to explain. Luckily, I was able to

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