The Current State of Bullet-Lead Evidence
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ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION COMPARISON, FORENSIC ANALYSIS: WEIGHING BULLET LEAD EVIDENCE 1 (2004) [hereinafter cited as NRC REPORT]; FBI National Press Office, National Academy of Sciences Releases FBI-commissioned Study on Bullet Lead Analysis, Feb. 10, 2004, available at http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel04/bullet021004.htm (“[s]ince the early 1980's this technique has been used in approximately 2,500 cases and in less than 20% of those cases, bullet lead compositional analysis was presented as circumstantial evidence in court. “).
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