Wow, it seems pro-defense people have organized at the courthouse to shut out people who really want to see the trial. Numerous people have taken to standing in line to eventually get in, they sit down for a half an hour and then leave. So those seats, a good amount of the only 30 available for the public are then left empty. How subversive and childish behavior is that!? MO
I wonder if it has anything to do with the defense taking a bit of a beating with the case they're presenting? MO
Yesterday the defense's ballistics firearms expert, Warren, seems to have taken a beating on cross. His lab isn't even accredited. He apparently didn't examine the bullet or the gun physically himself.
All this came out after he even testified that the cameras on the microscopes used in ballistics, because of some issue with field of range photographic conditions, don't take an extremely accurate image, yet that's all he used. It's the examiner's eye and experience looking through the microscope that is key. He even touted himself ("I am") as the answer to the question, what's a ballistics examiner's best tool?
He also made no report. So what did this expert, of only six years, do? He looked at the pictures given to him by the defense, that's it. We don't even know how many that was?
The expert did not make a request, to the ISP, to send him the bullet or gun to look at the evidence himself.
He even answered a juror's question with a (paraphrasing) well if I had examined the bullet and gun myself maybe I'd have agreed with the State's examiner, who knows...
All in all, I think this expert was a bust for the defense. MO
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