You'll notice, which was also in my test report, all the dominant lighting is coming from thenorth side, which means that the shooter's face would have been photo-occluded. It wouldhave been backlit. Furthermore, the roof of the car is causing what we call a shadow cloudinside the car which is making it darker. And this is three to four feet away

A good forensic expert also has to be a good educator, a goodcommunicator, and that's part of the reason why we take the pictures, to show not onlywhere the light sources are, and what we call the spill, the distribution, but also so that it'seasier for the trier of fact to understand the circumstances.

The brain abhors avacuum. Under the best of observation conditions, the absolute best, we only detect, encodeand store in our brains bits and pieces of the entire experience in front of us, and they'restored in different parts of the brain.