how many times? approximately 55 to 60 times. i would tender her to the jury as expert in firearms ammunition identification. ladies and gentlemen, same instructions holds for ms. pagan. she is declared to be an expert in the area of firearms identification, ammunition identification. so she will be able to render an opinion about that subject matter. are there numerous types and calibers of handguns? there are. can you explain the difference between a revolver and a ppistol or specifically a semi-automatic? with a revolver it is a manual gun. i think most are familiar with how revolveers have a cylinder in them and manually load cartridges so that each time when you fire and pull the triggerer the hammer will pull back if you haven t already
amount of grooves and twists. there were six grooves and were a compatible width so the we call those class characteristics because it is possible for other guns to have six grooves with a twist of a similar width. it does help narrow it down. for instance if these had five grooves and my gun had six grooves then i could automatically eliminate it. the class characteristics of the bullets and jacket match. however, i was not able to, again, i could not identify it as being fired in that gun or eliminate it as being fired in that gun. let me ask you to assume the following fact for the purpose of the question i will ask you. assume that the two bullets i am about to show you were fired through a vehicle and into a human s body, my question to you looking at state s exhibit and then recovered from the medical
ashleigh banfield is live in jacksonville, florida. she is covering this trial. paul callan and joey jackson are with me. we have heard a lot about this 9 millimeter gun, ashleigh. kind of set the scene for us. reporter: finally, it is sunny for starters. weather is pretty miserable. when it is sunny, lots of people come out. i don t know if you can hear behind me. there is an echo of a loud speaker. some people out protesting in the case the same as in the zimmerman case. why you are seeing what you are seeing now is what i like to call taking the box off all the evidence and making sure you cross every t and dot every i. everybody seems to stimulate he shot the gun. he says he was the shooter. it was all about what was in his state of mind.
defense, at least the defense attorney got something out of her that i think he will try to use in his summation later on. still, joey, it was disturbing. after the shooting goes down, they go to this bed and breakfast and order a pizza. they don t call the police at all. even if she said it was her idea, wouldn t it be mr. dunn s duty to call the police after he pumped some bullets into someone else s car? you know, carol, to your question. i think the jury is asking that same thing. they are certainly thinking about, what constitutes reasonableness. if you are in imminent fear for your life, you saw a stick, you saw the butt of a gun, you saw something that you thought could take your life and you reacted, because you had to and had no other alternative, what does human behavior dictate that you do following that, that you call 911, that you stay and that you tell the police, i didn t mean to do it or, oh, my god, it was my only alternative or does reasonableness dictate that you
identification. we take a look at them and look at what kind of marks are there and see if we can find things. it varies from gun to gun. let me begin by showing you state exhibit 186 and asking you to refer to your report and tell me, is this one of the items which would be submission 1, item 2 that you reviewed for your purposes? yes, it is. and in looking at that one under a microscope, were you able to either identify or eliminate that as having been fired from the gun submitted to you? i was not. tell the jurors what is your findings that you may neither