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Physics Offers New Perspective on Blood Spatter Investigations
Loaded on July 15, 2021
by Michael Fortino, Ph.D
published in Criminal Legal News
August, 2021, page 21
by Michael Fortino, Ph.D.
Blood Spatter Analysis (“BPA”) for years has been a state of the art, highly-sophisticated forensic consideration in determining the trajectory and origin of a crime scene gunshot, yet recent advancements in physics have now turned the science of blood spatter investigations “inside-out.” Following the study of ...
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