Acelaw
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Philosophically, yes. Here in the real world, you're wrong.
Massad Ayoob has written of at least one case in which reloads introduced enough confusion into a homicide trial that the defendant went to prison, wrongly in Ayoob's opinion.
It is easily within the realm of possibility that a prosecutor's characterization of the use of reloads could result in a conviction; unlikely, and probably unjust, but definitely possible.
I think that's probably backwards. In the real world, I'm highly skeptical that any of this stuff will matter in an otherwise justified shoot. The stories of rogue prosecutors talking about evil reloads and the like are the extreme exception, not the norm.
Out of X shootings over the past 50 years, how many examples can you find? And in the ones that are cited, how many jurors say that reloads/caliber/punisher grips were the deciding factor that swung them?