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Would show up that you would take the gun nuzzle and push it into the shirt where the shirt would fold around it? >> no. it was consistent with the muzzle of the firearm touching. >> it was consistent with this, shirt, firearm. wasnt consistent with pushing or anything? >> no. >> that would have shown up completely different configurati configuration. >> to me contact is when the muzzle is touching the fabric whether its a light touching or pressed in all the way. the fact that the muzzle was to...

Was touching or in this case when you saw a couple of, i thought you said, you saw a couple of little burn spots of maybe powder had escaped was that consistent with being an 1/8 of an inch away or a 1/4 of an inch away or what? >> it is consistent with muzzle touching the garment itself. >> that you can tell because there is tearing itself, the way a projectile at that range rips through the fabric? >> yes. >> did you do any examination to identify the distance that the bullet traveled before i...

Expected to begin any moment here. we heard testimony on critical evident about the shot that killed trayvon martin. listen. >> the clothing, displayed residues and physical affects consistent with a contact shot. nmeaning the muzzle was up against the sweatshirt when it was fired? >> correct. did you do any examination to identify the distance the bullet travelled before it hit mr. martins chest? >> no, i only examined the clothing for distance determination. >> no, she doesnt know what the dis...

Science department at the john jay college of criminal justice. a forensic scientist himself. let me play the clip from this crime laboratory analyst who examined trayvon martins sweatshirt and then well discuss. >> are you findings consistent with the muzzle of the gun having been pressed into the dark hooded sweatshirt and fired through both the dark hooded sweatshirt and the lighter colored sweatshirt? >> its consistent with the muzzle of the firearm touching the outer sweatshirt and the inne...

Garment. once it hits clothing, the stipling spreads in different directions. what wibds up on the skin is not the distance from the muzzle of the gun. >> just so im clear, can you establish whether its a gap between the sweatshirt and the body. if hes leaning over and on top of george zimmerman, you would expect the sweatshirt to drop a bit? >> no. you cant tell the distance of the outer most garment which is whats most important from the skin, except by the medical examiner, you can by common ...

>> the problem is, to begin with, greta, youre right, theres nothing mention of the clothing in the autopsy report. the body is received nude, the clothing got to the me office, there was a separate receipt for the clothing, nobody in the m.e.s office seems to have looked at the clothing, what the detective was agreeing to was not true. what is true is that it was not a contact wound. the muzzle was not up against the skin at the time the autopsy was done. we can see that, but it was within two ...

Push it into the shirt where the shirt would fold around it, was there? >> no, it was consistent with the muzzle of the firearm touching. >> if it was in contact -- >> okay. >> pushed in to the extent that it folded the fabric around it, that wouldve shown a different type of burn pattern potentially, correct? >> potentially if the sweatshirt had gone over the top of the ejection port area, there would possibly be marks from that, but otherwise whether it was lightly touching or pressed in, it w...

>> that is a close-up of the distance test that i had made, the arrows are pointing to diagonal tear that occurred in the fabric. >> when you conducted the distance test with the kel-tech pistol and the hooded sweatshirt, what did you determine about the distance between the muzzle of the gun and the material at the time the gun was discharged? >> the clothing displayed residues and physical effects consistent with a contact shot. >> meaning the muzzle, or the end of the barrel of the gun was up...

>> and if you look at the defense lawyer on the screen, hes holding up his fingers as though its about six inches. the jurys looking at him as hes doing this. the prosecutions not saying anything. >> can you examine the sweatshirt and the wound on the decedents body and make a determination and see if the sweatshirt was away from the body? and can you estimate the damage? but can you look at that and estimate that? >> yes, the criminal -- the medical examiner can do that. to see the spread of th...

Effects that i have seen. >> when you say touching, is that a term of art? it actually was touching or in this case when you saw a couple of i thought you said you saw a couple of little burn spots of maybe powder that had escaped, is that consistent with the -- an eighth of an inch away, a quarter of an inch away or what? >> no, its consistent with the muzzle touching the garment itself. >> and that you can tell because there was some tearing itself, thats the way a projectile itself at that ra...