You’re right — it was outside — just outside for effect.
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LOL Effect, yes. The effect being that Dr Bao (Gao, Lao?) the medical examiner was a complete idiot and didn’t understand the range of tattooing.
This correlates to the the persecution’s ME in a very important way: Both say the hoodie was away from the body at the time of the gunshot, indicating Skittles thug was on top. The argument is about how much and that’s not all that important, that I can see.
It is there so that at closing remarks the prosecution can cite their ME and say that if it was .4 then could Dr DeMaio be wrong — blah blah blah