That’s right, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t the dead dope dealers gun. A lack of evidence is not evidence. Stockley did what every other officer who has just found a gun under that was unsecured. He made it safe ergo he touched it.
Further, they couldn’t prove it wasn’t the other Sierra Hotel that was initially in the car with dopeman.
Lastly, there was heroin in the car. Stockley seized it, badguy DNA on it, Stockley’s not.
they know better than to touch it like that