CSI Miami Episode #617 — “To Kill A Predator”

[rat­ings]
My wife sug­gested I add blog entries regard­ing the parts of the pop­u­lar tele­vi­sion drama (CSI) that make me say “bull” while we watch it. She finds it inter­est­ing to hear what is far fetched in my opinion.

Granted these are my opin­ions only, and I am more sen­si­tive to inci­dents that relate to my main areas of exper­tise (drugs, alco­hol, arson, and firearms). I’m sure other peo­ple would dis­agree, and other foren­sic sci­en­tists would pos­si­bly object to other inci­dents that I don’t.

#1 When the med­ical exam­iner removes the fired dam­aged pro­jec­tile from the vic­tim in the café shoot­ing, the firearm exam­iner is able to iden­tify it as a .243 pro­jec­tile visu­ally. I may know some seri­ous hunters that might be able to make that call, but I don’t know any firearm exam­in­ers that could call that visually.

#2 When the fired cas­ing from the café shoot­ing was recov­ered, there was a usable latent print left by the first vic­tim in the show who knows how many months ear­lier. In my expe­ri­ence get­ting a usable latent print off a fired cas­ing is incred­i­bly rare, let alone one that was put on the car­tridge some­time before firing.