That's one of the images I would like to see. I heard that described at trial but haven't seen the image of it. I would like to place a rod from the entry point down through that skull an see how that lines up with the brain. to me it looks like the bullet went under the frontal lobe.
This does not answer my question, so I'll try again. There was an exit hole in the cranial plate - that's on the autopsy report, testified to at trial and a picture of it exhibited at trial. Those are facts. Your answer saying what it looks like to you (somehow going under the frontal lobe) is not supported by that evidence. If it exited that area, it had to enter it, right? So how does it get out of the area that contains the brain without going through the brain?
I saw this video and it's too blurry and I think irresponsible to accept the arrows someone uses as fact on such a blurry image. I would like to see the actual photographs. clearly and then a rod from the entry hold through the hole when the bullet reenters the face.
Understood, and now that you are acknowledging that exit point, we know that the original bullet path is unknown without that information. As Horn said: "It may have been deflected by the bone, since it's passing through the skull. So, it's position in the cheek may not be the- the actual trajectory at the beginning of its path." Would still like to hear how it could have missed the brain though, since it had to have been in that cavity.
I do see that the frontal lobe would be settling in that area and Horn does say there is and entry and an exit point I wish we had where he put the arrows not the one making the video. Anyhow, I too, believe the bullet traveled into the skull, I just think it either only grazed the brain or missed it, going right under it like the arrows even suggest. Horn said the brain was symmetrical and that there was no signs of a bullet track (althought the brain was "somewhat" decomposed" Somewhat means mild.
The arrows on that picture are not suggesting that is the actual entry point - it's simply there to show about where on the skull the bullet entered as related to the exit point.
The word "somewhat" in the text is not describing the level of decomp, as you keep saying. It is describing his ability to examine the brain being somewhat limited because of the decomp. Since the brain was "pudding" like, the wound track had disappeared, IOW. But he was able to determine little bleeding and no foreign objects, etc. He describes the level of decomp at trial in several places when he's describing the autopsy pics on direct, using terms of mummification, discoloration, marbling, slippage and bloating which were shown on the pictures. He also talked about it on cross during surrebuttal. He describes it as at the medium level of decomposition, and tells Willmott "that's pretty far along".
You might also notice that the image that Kevin Horn is talking about isn't the image that the producer of the video chose to put arrows on. If you notice juan is about to put this image on the overhead. the image horn was discussing was already on the overhead. So, this image is not accurately depicting what horn was talking about. unless there is another projector over there.
I think you've already found the answer to this, but just FTR, the image capture was taken from Juan's closing, not from Horn's testimony where he is describing what damage it shows.
