• @[email protected]
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    962 months ago

    You’ve misread the passive language here. ‘no prints were recovered’ can mean that they tried to find prints and couldn’t, or that they never even bothered to try getting prints off the gun.

    • @[email protected]
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      482 months ago

      It could also mean no print were recovered other than his obviously which they may have just not bothered to mention

      • TheYojimbo
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        182 months ago

        Yeah that’s the obvious answer here, his finger was on the gun so his prints were there too…

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      302 months ago

      Also, people need to understand that not everything you touch will 100% have your fingerprints.

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      52 months ago

      I’ll admit, this irks me in mystery shows. Those don’t seem like something you’d reliably get.

      “Sir, just as you predicted, we found the kitchen knife in the third drainage grate of the northern side of the city sewage system, wrapped loosely in five layers of cheesecloth, wadded with human waste. And, we’ve performed a DNA and fingerprint analysis on the handle. The prints perfectly match your suspect, sir!”