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Old March 8, 2013, 12:01 PM   #17
Frank Ettin
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Join Date: November 23, 2005
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Originally Posted by AH.74
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1. Someone is dead and has a bullet hole in their chest.
2. You are there with a gun.

Why wouldn't you expect to be treated as a suspect? If it was your brother on the ground, wouldn't you want the investigation to be thorough?
You don't think it would be more apparent that what happened was self-inflicted as opposed to someone else shooting the guy from a side angle? It's also not as if the incident could then be staged afterward with other witnesses present....
Do you have any idea what the situation looked like when the police arrived? How would you, or any of us, have any clue what would be more apparent?

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Originally Posted by AH.74
...I think from all appearances a good investigator could determine the likelihood of self-infliction without causing innocents to be made suspect of murder.
Do you have any idea how to conduct an investigation of anything? Do you have any idea how to manage a possible crime scene?

Some of the general rules of conducting an investigation: (1) don't make snap judgments based on immediate appearances; (2) preserve evidence; (3) gather evidence; (4) review evidence; and (5) then start to draw inferences from the evidence about what happened.
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