What’s intermediate range? 3 inches??
It's a statement they can back up with the science.
You can get gunshot powder residue on the victim without muzzle contact evidence from about 3 inches to about 9 feet with medium handguns.
The tech will surely spend a lot of time on the stand describing specific distances and the technological limits of the equipment.
George's attorney will present an independent expert that will testify that the residue found indeed could be deposited at 6 inches to a foot in distance.
Forensic defines it as nearly touching the skin to up to 3 feet away.
If George Zimmerman just pulled the gun out of his pocket, and fired it close to his chest, that could be as far as a foot in terms of from where it was fired to the entry.
Bingo.
THis is from CBS:
Details from Trayvon Martin’s autopsy show the bullet entered the left side of his chest, and shattered the ventrical, one of his heart’s two large chambers but the round did not leave his body.
The reports also noted the fatal wound’s surrounded by a two-by-two inch pattern called stippling, caused by gunpower burns. It suggests Zimmerman fired *inches* away from the teenager.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57435800/zimmerman-martins-last-words-were-its-over/
Lefties are already trying to spin “Intermediate range” as “at some significant distance such that Jorge could have broken off the engagement.”
http://www.firearmsid.com/A_distanceResults.htm
Intermediate Range Gunshot
An intermediate range gunshot usually will deposit a significant amount of particulate residue that is not easily seen with the eye but can be detected through a microscopic examination and through chemical testing. The results may read something like:
Exhibit 1 (shirt) was found to have a bullet entrance hole in the chest area. A deposit of gunshot residues were found around this hole that are consistent with those that would be deposited by an intermediate range gunshot.
An intermediate range gunshot, like that seen in the above image, can range from just beyond the 12-inch range out to 24 to 36 inches. This depends greatly upon the caliber, barrel length and powder type used in the ammunition.
Somewhere I read that it was 2 to 4 inches.