Bullet lead analysis, which was the subject of a joint Washington Post and 60 Minutes report on Nov. 25, makes a useful case study in the rise and fall of a forensic technique because it has a ...

The current procedure for assessing a “match” (analytically indistinguishable chemical compositions) between a crime-scene (CS) bullet and a potential suspect’s (PS) bullet starts with three pieces ...

It is the conclusion of the committee that, in many cases, CABL is a reasonably accurate way of determining whether two bullets could have come from the same compositionally indistinguishable volume ...