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Jennifer s fingerprints were not found on the gun. whenever i try a criminal case and we ask the officers on the stand, did you fingerprint the gun, the inevitable response is how difficult it is to raise fingerprints from a firearm. why no gunpowder on jennifer s hands? with regard to gunshot residue, it is incredibly unreliable, particularly where there is a thick tuft of hair. as for the bullet angle, the prosecution argued would be nearly impossible in a suicide, the defense said it was possible and in fact found another case involving a self-inflicted wound that was nearly identical. and while the prosecution argued cell phone records placed bart near his home around 2:00 a.m. when jennifer died, the defense said those records don t prove anything because no one really knows the exact time of death. they don t know when jennifer corbin died, and that was an interesting aspect of our case. ....
Went, it s the gun. he mouthed, it s the gun. and i stood up and said, judge, there s been a development in the court. can i be excused? and i walked out. his investigator told him the police chief in troy, alabama, had just questioned richard wilson about the gun. it s almost like we ve pushed him into the corner one step at a time, and the chief takes the last step and basically puts him right into the corner. and at that point he says you re going to have to tell the truth. you re going to have to go to georgia and do the right thing. and richard wilson hung his head and he said, i gave him the gun. he said that he thought his wife was fooling around on him and that he, you know, he thought he needed a gun to ....
jennifer called me. it had just happened. she called me, and she was crying hysterically. three days later, jennifer was dead. her family was overwhelmed by grief and outraged by barton corbin s reaction, or lack of one. i don t know if there s a guideline of how a person should react when your wife has been found dead, but i would think that the initial reaction would be something along the lines of, oh, my god, where are my children? oh, my god, where s jennifer? oh, my god, what happened? there was not a peep. there was not a word. that s really what i focused on. why didn t he come and get his kids? he left them at the home the night before, and he never comes. he never shows up. all that amounted to circumstantial evidence. but what gwinnett county district attorney danny porter really wanted was hard proof tying bart to the gun found on jennifer s bed. ....
yeah, hi, i m sorry. this is jennifer corbin. i called there a few minutes ago about my husband taking off with some of my possessions and he s probably going to take them and use them as evidence against me. we re in the process of going through a divorce. what s more, the prosecutor had not directly tied bart corbin to the gun used in his wife s death, a major weakness in the case against him. all of which the defense contended added up to reasonable doubt for a jury. as the trial approached, jennifer s family braced for the possibility her reputation would be tarnished in the courtroom. but they said they weren t concerned about the e-mails. she was exceptionally lonely. she just wanted a friend. somebody. and she had had a marriage that was void for years. he was having an affair. she just was dying for some companionship, and she found someone that listened to her. and somehow it gave her comfort. ....
That would be critical to the case. but a weapons check could only trace it to a gun dealer in alabama way back in 1957, years before bart was born. the d.a. did know bart had a friend in troy, alabama, named richard wilson. so i dispatched investigators to alabama for the first time on december the 15th of 2004 to talk to richard wilson in troy, alabama. he initially says that the only thing he knows is that he had talked to bart and learned that jennifer had died. and he tells us he doesn t know anything about a gun. investigators also used bart s cell phone records to map his movements on that fatal night. bart said he was at his brother s house around 2:00 a.m., jennifer s estimated time of death. but cell phone records put him right near the house where jennifer died. ....