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Discredited forensics may upend rulings

Discredited forensics may upend rulings By Meg Laughlin, Times Staff WriterIn print: Saturday, December 13, 2008 http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/article936409.ece Gainesville prosecutor Geoffrey Fleck has asked that Ates? murder conviction be overturned.In 1998, Panhandle high school teacher Jimmy Ates was convicted of murder for shooting his wife seven times in the couple's Okaloosa County home. There were conflicting witness accounts and a time line with wiggle room. But the testimony of an FBI expert was indisputable: The bullets that murdered Norma Jean Ates in the couple's bedroom came from Jimmy Ates' box of bullets.Prosecutor Rod Smith hammered the point home to jurors: "Of all the millions and billions of bullets that are made by any given company in any given time frame, the bullets that killed Norma Jean were manufactured from the same batch that were found in the box in the back room...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).