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<blockquote data-quote="Dave70968" data-source="post: 3110166" data-attributes="member: 13624"><p>Nikat nailed it:</p><p></p><p>That's it. It's not a matter of the caliber changing it from a good shoot to a bad shoot; it's a matter of the caliber (and specific load) leaving patterns of physical evidence that tend to corroborate or refute your story of a good shoot. If the evidence is inconsistent with your story (because you're using a load for which the forensics guys don't have data), then you're in a position of having a less-credible (not the same as <em>not</em> credible, just <em>less</em> credible) story, and now you have one more variable for which you have to account, one more question you have to answer for the jury to get them to agree it was self-defense.</p><p></p><p>I know that sounds like semantics, and it <em>is</em> subtle, but when it's your butt sitting in the defendant's chair, you don't want the jury having any more reasons to question you than absolutely necessary. Can you overcome that extra question? Maybe you can, maybe you can't...but it'll cost you money to even try, as lawyers and expert witnesses don't come cheap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave70968, post: 3110166, member: 13624"] Nikat nailed it: That's it. It's not a matter of the caliber changing it from a good shoot to a bad shoot; it's a matter of the caliber (and specific load) leaving patterns of physical evidence that tend to corroborate or refute your story of a good shoot. If the evidence is inconsistent with your story (because you're using a load for which the forensics guys don't have data), then you're in a position of having a less-credible (not the same as [I]not[/I] credible, just [I]less[/I] credible) story, and now you have one more variable for which you have to account, one more question you have to answer for the jury to get them to agree it was self-defense. I know that sounds like semantics, and it [I]is[/I] subtle, but when it's your butt sitting in the defendant's chair, you don't want the jury having any more reasons to question you than absolutely necessary. Can you overcome that extra question? Maybe you can, maybe you can't...but it'll cost you money to even try, as lawyers and expert witnesses don't come cheap. [/QUOTE]
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