CSI Miami Episode # 514 “No Man’s Land”

(2 votes, aver­age: 5.00 out of 5)
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There was a lot of firearms related shoot­ing in this case. I’m only going to com­ment on the parts that I find don’t agree with my expe­ri­ence to reality.

1) When Ryan told the older brother that peo­ple don’t go to prison for acci­dents (refer­ring to the brother “acci­den­tally” shoot­ing his younger brother). It was a clear case of the shooter not mean­ing to shoot the vic­tim, but that doesn’t mean the shooter isn’t going to get charged.

I worked a case where some­one was look­ing to make sure his firearm was unloaded. There was plenty of evi­dence to sup­port that is what hap­pened, but the weapon dis­charged. The bul­let per­fo­rated his couch, and car­ried on into the neighbor’s apart­ment. There hap­pened to be chil­dren in the other apart­ment, and the man check­ing his firearm was charged by the prosecutor’s office with 5 felony counts.

2) When Horatio shot the shooter who shot Eric in the leg (the first one with the rifle), they showed a slow-motion close up of the pro­jec­tile and it was a full metal jack­eted bul­let. Most law enforce­ment agen­cies that I’ve ever dealt with in the United States use jack­eted hol­low­point pro­jec­tiles for hand­gun rounds. Reason being they are far safer than the full metal jack­eted ones in a tra­di­tional urban setting.