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CROSS EXAMINATION- SERGEANT VAL CALABRESE

1. Sergeant Calabrese, you’ve worked for the State Police Department for 24 years now,
correct?

2. And when you started your job, you were just a Firearms Instructor teaching police
students how to shoot straight, true?

3. But over time because of your experience, you were made the head firearms
examiner, yes?

4. Now upon receiving this position, your job was examining bullets for identification
purposes, correct?

5. Which meant that you would closely look over a bullet to identify its make and
model, true?

6. And as head firearms examiner, you looked over 1200 bullets in your career, am I
correct?

7. Now because of your experience you were asked to examine the evidence in today’s
case, yes?

8. And in this case you were given three pieces of evidence: a bullet, a pistol, and the
pistol’s matching magazine, correct?

9. It was your job to try and determine if the item number one bullet was fired from the
item number two pistol, yes?

10. You would do this by comparing lands and grooves on the evidence bullet to those
made on test-fired bullets, correct?

11. Now, tests that you performed involved firing these test bullets from the pistol into a
water tank, true?

12. And isn’t it true that this was done so that the water would slow down the bullet so
that the lands and grooves would remain unchanged?

13. But this was not how the item number one bullet was retrieved, was it?

14. Right, isn’t it true that this bullet had to be extracted from a car?

15. This bullet had surface damage from passing through the victim and the metal of the
car, did it not?
16. This bullet was how you even described in your own words “deformed?”

17. You described this bullet as being “distorted?”

18. Didn’t you even observe this bullet being “heavily damaged?”

19. But the bullets that you test fired into the water tank were not damaged whatsoever,
were they?

20. Yet you still made comparisons under a microscope, correct?

21. You were comparing a heavily damaged bullet to a cleanly recovered one, though,
weren’t you?

22. Now under comparison you found that the crime scene bullet had ten equal lands and
grooves with a right-hand twist, true?

23. And that the gun item number two imprinted ten equal lands and grooves with a right-
hand twist on test-fired bullets, correct?

24. So this led you to conclude that you had come across a “perfect match,” didn’t it?

25. But isn’t it true Sergeant that there are other guns that make those markings on fired
bullets?

26. Don’t M9 Beretta pistols make ten equal lands and grooves with a right-hand twist?

27. Don’t Taurus revolvers make ten equal lands and grooves with a right-hand twist?

28. Don’t Bruni revolvers make ten equal lands and grooves with a right-hand twist?

29. Don’t Raven Arms pistols make ten equal lands and grooves with a right-hand twist?

30. And don’t Colt pistols make ten equal lands and grooves with a right-hand twist?

31. Yet you never tested any of these guns, did you Sergeant?

32. Even though these guns would make the same markings, you never compared them to
the crime scene bullet, did you?

Thank you, no further questions your honor.

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