Hinton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““The court makes the following findings of fact from the trial testimony: “1) During his service in the Air Force Mr. Payne was an instructor in the gunnery program and worked on ‘development research of guns’ (RDA. 1573); “2) Throughout his 30 year career with the Air Force, Mr. Payne was involved with the design of gun barrels (R-DA. 1574-75); “3) During his Air Force Career Mr. Payne was involved with the testing of firearms and bullets on a daily basis (R-DA. 1575); “4) During his Air Force career he examined bullets fired from machine guns and examined bullets fired from handguns on a regular basis (R-DA. 1576); “5) During the 1950’s he served on the weapons evaluation board of the Air Force and examined fired bullets approximately 6000 times (R-DA. 1576); “6) He worked at the Pentagon as the ‘technical assistant to the deputy chief of staff for research and technology1 which included research and design of all weapons, non nuclear (R-DA. 1577); “7) He was a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences through which he received all publications of the criminalistics branch which included firearms identification (R-DA. 1578-79,1642^3); “8) Throughout his career he learned how ‘barrels and bullets put toolmarks on one another’ (R-DA. 1577); “9) Prior to his examination of Hinton’s gun he had viewed bullets under a comparison microscope ‘thousands’ of times (R-DA. 1601); “10) Throughout his career he spent much of his time matching ammunition back to a particular gun”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hinton v. State