Many thanks to everyone for so many responses that go a long way to confirm some of the things I'd been thinking. BTW, I haven't been given any info about the gun except that it was a .38 revolver....
I'd been wondering if maybe issues regrading the weapon could be used to poke holes in the other side's story (he says it was his weapon in for maintenance -- was it maybe a fenced gun his buddy slipped him and then they needed some quick excuse? hmmm?).
I contacted my prof to see if I'm just thinking too hard (some of ya'll noted that the purpose of this exercise is more to argue the facts we've been given, not prove why those facts are wrong), and his comment was that such attention to detail would serve me well in the future, but on this case, which I'm doing prosecution for, just go with what we've been given, faulty as it may be....
Thanks!
I'd been wondering if maybe issues regrading the weapon could be used to poke holes in the other side's story (he says it was his weapon in for maintenance -- was it maybe a fenced gun his buddy slipped him and then they needed some quick excuse? hmmm?).
I contacted my prof to see if I'm just thinking too hard (some of ya'll noted that the purpose of this exercise is more to argue the facts we've been given, not prove why those facts are wrong), and his comment was that such attention to detail would serve me well in the future, but on this case, which I'm doing prosecution for, just go with what we've been given, faulty as it may be....
Thanks!