Day Three: Bullet couldn't have come over the car for Lindsey to have fallen in direction he did

The CD presentation is shown, and it is about the car driven by Sammy Rivera.

A photo is shown of the red Dodge Neon is shown from front and back to the court. A schematic of a similar car is then shown and it is said that the schematic will be used to point out certain areas on the car.

Officer Grenier points out blood stains and brain matter on the driver's side car door of the red Dodge Neon. Grenier says the blood stain would appear to have come from blood NOT being airborne, but by the object (in this case, Officer Lindsey) coming into direct contact with the car.

Characterizing it as a "swipe mark," Grenier says it is made by one object moving against the other. Using a highlighting tool over the photos of the car, Officer Grenier shows the direction of the swipe mark.

Then, on the schematic shows where there were blood stains, brain matter, and the swipe mark on the side of the car. Prosecution asks if the swipe mark is consistent with the car moving forward. Grenier says "yes."

Prosecution asks if from these marks and stains if they can determine the position of Officer Lindsey, using the schematic and a figure to show where he believes Lindsey was standing and in what direction the bullet might have come from. If the shot came from over the car, Grenier says, Lindsey would have fallen away from the car.

Officer Grenier says that the bullet would have come from the side of Officer Lindsey, causing the officer to then fall INTO the car.

On the diagram, a possible direction of the shot is displayed as coming from a variety of angles, including next to the rear of the car, and at the back of the car by the trunk. Several of the angles are ruled out as "highly unlikely" by Grenier.

According to Grenier, direction and distance would determine in which way Lindsey would have fallen. One example Grenier gives is IF the shot had come from within the car, and says that, along with some of the other angles, would, again, be "highly unlikely," based on the direction in which Officer Lindsey fell.

One angle that Grenier sees as more consistent would be behind where Officer Lindsey stood on the driver's side of the vehicle. Somewhat hard to describe in text, but somewhat like the following, according to the diagram, with [] being the car, and () being the individuals - the shooter and Lindsey, and --- being the direction of the shot.

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Another angle Grenier describes as possibly consistent looks like:

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