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Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EDT

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Podcast Keywords:

ballistics,forensics,science,crime,Weapons,investigation,nature,guns

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In the first case using ballistic evidence, the validity of ballistics as a forensic science was called into question when an "expert witness" lied on the stand and sent an innocent man to death row.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?i=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?i=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?i=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:TzevzKxY174"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?d=TzevzKxY174" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:l6gmwiTKsz0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?d=l6gmwiTKsz0" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:KwTdNBX3Jqk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?i=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:KwTdNBX3Jqk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?a=aG6MGzezSrE:Pj__Fa7MknY:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmithsonianChannelPresentsForensicFirsts/~4/aG6MGzezSrE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

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03:12 MINS

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Smithsonian Channel

Subtitle:

In the first case using ballistic evidence, the validity of ballistics as a forensic science was called into question when an "expert witness" lied on the stand and sent an innocent man to death row.

Topic:

Forensics  Search this

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Smithsonian Channel Presents Forensic Firsts

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