I'm guessing somebody allegedly shot at somebody, missed, and hit somebody else 5 blocks away.
I already have the technical info, thanks to kraigwy. That will be most helpful when questioning the gun expert. However, the jury will not be gun experts, so listening to my fellow nonexperts here is helpful to me, and hopefully to the jury as well when I lay it out in plain language.
tipoc,tipoc said:. . . .Knowing that you have little actual knowledge of what your speaking of and relying on that partial knowledge to get a conviction, knowing that you don't have the whole picture, seems questionable. But then I know that it's common. I also know I don't know all involved.
Unless I'm wrong, B. Lahey in playing defense on this one.B. Lahey said:They are relying upon transferred intent.
I wonder how that figures in with Greenhill's formula?I cannot find the twist of a Rossi .38 but if, after the merger, they get the same barrels as Taurus, that would be 16.5".