In this case, the defendant's lawyers consulted me regarding the investigation and analysis of the scene, in the overall context of the location of the casings, bullet injuries to the deceased and their trajectories in his body, and determining the order of the shots that struck him. All of these, together with additional legal elements, such as the defendant's mental state, led to acquittals of the charge of reckless homicide, a crime punishable by up to 12 years in prison!
In this case, in which a police officer was accused of merely performing his duty, the MHA attempted to present false evidence against him, which, fortunately for the police officer, "did not work out" with the laws of physics. For example, they placed the deceased in the wrong area.
The fact that the bullets that hit him penetrated from side to side but left no mark on the wall, which was supposedly behind him, did not bother either the investigators at the scene or the attorneys who wrote the indictment.
Another charge, that the officer allegedly shot him at close range while he was lying on the ground, was also refuted thanks to an analysis of the bullet trajectories in the body, the location of the officer's gun holsters at the scene, and the location of the injuries. The bullets in the walls of the compound where the incident occurred.
All of this, along with the fact that it was an innocent mistake in identifying the deceased as a terrorist, probably led to the acquittal of the policeman, who should not have been charged in the first place!
PO Box 40172-06-21 of the Jerusalem District Court, State of Israel v. So-and-so
