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Toolmark analysis: The forensic examination of marks left by tools on various substrates, including bone, to identify the type or individual instrument responsible for the injury.
But Allen's attorneys plan to call William A. Tobin, a metallurgy expert, to testify during Allen's upcoming murder trial, to cast a shadow on the methodology of forensic tool marks examinations ...
In "Forensics on Trial," NOVA investigates how modern forensics, including the analysis of fingerprints, bite marks, ballistics, hair, and tool marks, can send innocent men and women to prison ...
Judge orders new trial for suspect in 1991 Grand Junction pipe bombings that killed 2 people Judge finds tool-mark evidence used to tie James Genrich to bombings was unconstitutional ...
The decision questions decades of forensic practice, calling gun-to-casing matches based on "subjective judgment" rather than scientific methodology.
DELPHI, Ind. (WISH) — Testimony today in the trial of a man accused of killing two Delphi tennagers in 2017 centered around “tool marks” and the evidence a firearm leaves on a fired and un ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Oygenblik, Georgia Institute of Technology and Brendan Saltaformaggio ...
In addition to challenging the tool-mark evidence in the case, Genrich’s attorneys argued that the state’s other evidence was circumstantial and insufficient for a conviction.
Evidence for butchery of giant armadillo-like mammals in Argentina 21,000 years ago Tool marks could be among oldest known evidence for human occupation in southern South America ...