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Gases and gunpowder do, too. brown s rifle, a .22-caliber savage model 99 was tested at the oregon state police lab. the rifle had to be 36 inches away from the target to leave no trace of gunpowder. this meant that brown s rifle was at least three feet away when the trigger was pulled. to have muzzle to target distance three feet and a level entry and exit wound, how do you contort yourself to be able to do that when he s claiming all he was doing was passing the gun along? with this forensic evidence, tom brown was arrested and charged with murder. ....
Frailties and cross-examination and credibility and bias and so forth. and, of course, the powerful nature of forensic evidence is it s not subject to those things. candra torres testified in detail about her ordeal. tom brown told his version and tried to demonstrate how the alleged accident took place. he tried to hand off that rifle, and it just you can t. you can t do it. and he stuck to his guns, and i believe stuck to a lie. but it was demonstrated to be that. brown was so confident that he waived a jury trial. the verdict from the judge was guilty. he was sentenced to life in prison. bob hamilton is retired now, but he attends brown s parole hearings to make certain he stays in prison. and that candra never has to see him again. candra is remarried, has a ....
And i was used to turning heads. the fisherman, tom brown, told them about a good fishing spot nearby that had recently been stocked with fish. and we looked at each other, and it sounded like fun. we had had no luck fishing for two days, and we were ready to catch some fish. the fishing site was several miles away, and by the time they got there, it was dark. so they set up camp to get some rest. three days later, candra went to the local sheriff s office and called her mother with some terrible news. she says, julio s dead. it was a terrible accident. will you come and get me? candra said that the three of them had gone fishing and later did some hunting. they sighted a deer. julio handed tom his rifle so tom could take the first shot. but the rifle went off accidentally, killing julio instantly. oh, my god! ....
candra screamed. her dog instinctively attacked tom, and tom shot her dog, rusty, in self-defense. and then he panicked because he had a prior record, was known to the police, and that no one would believe him. so tom had no desire to explain the incident to police and gave candra the choice between staying with him or heading back to town. i had no way of getting down. i couldn t even drive. i didn t have a license. i didn t know how to drive a stick. confused and in shock, candra stayed with brown. but after two days, they reconsidered and decided to notify the authorities. he told them that there had been a shooting, and it was an accident, and she backed up his story. he then cooperated and took them to where the body was, helped them recover the rifle. ....
But we had a crime committed without an eyewitness. and this was a very, very close case. ballistic experts reexamined the evidence and the level of trajectory. if you re handing a gun, there is a lot of weight there. the chances of holding a gun to be perfectly flat, again, very, very unlikely. because i would expect it to be upward, instead of straight across. the medical examiner found no gunpowder residue around julio torres entrance wound. so investigators wanted to find out the distance between julio and the gun when it was fired. a bullet isn t the only thing that comes out of the rifle when fired. ....