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 con­tact other foren­sic sci­en­tists who are firearms exam­in­ers, and was pointed in the right direc­tion to start research­ing the odd observations.

What I dis­cov­ered was that I had encoun­tered a rarely seen event in the field, that required a series of out of the ordi­nary evi­dence han­dling tech­niques in order for it to man­i­fest itself.

Unfortunately I can’t get into specifics, as the case is still pend­ing. But it was excit­ing to come across some­thing new after over 10 years in the field. On top of all that, it was the first time I’d encoun­tered this type of gun in a case before!