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Citation

David TJ, Sobel MN. J. Forensic Sci. 1994; 39(6): 1560-1567.

Affiliation

Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Division of Forensic Sciences, Marietta.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1994, American Society for Testing and Materials, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7815034

Abstract

After a brutal rape, which the victim survived, a bite mark was photographed and other evidence was collected. It was not until several months later when the bite mark became a critical piece of evidence, that the problem with its collection became apparent to the prosecutor. The photograph of the bite mark taken by law-enforcement officials at the time of the crime did not include a reference scale. Therefore the bite mark was of little evidentiary value. The authors subsequently examined the victim (five months later) and "recaptured" the bite mark pattern with a proper reference scale by means of reflective ultraviolet photography.


Language: en

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