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what kind of test did you do so I fired shots using the firearm and ammunition recovered from the Duffy residence into
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a skin simulant in this case I used a cotton cloth material and I fire shots at known distances and what I'm trying
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to do is duplicate the stippling pattern that I observed on the decedent's head so in this case I'm going to fire one
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shot uh Within six inch of this cloth so you can see what I've created here is a a dense gunpowder particle
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pattern and I can then measure the diameter of this pattern and compare it to the stippling pattern on the Dean's
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head it's almost like a bullseye if I yeah so what we see here is is is smoke uh combined with the gunpowder particles
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so farther away you'd have a different pattern that's correct so uh this time I'm going to fire at a distance of
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greater than one foot and what we will see is that the gunpowder particle pattern is larger and more
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diffuse barely see it so you can see here there's a noticeable difference in the gun powder
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particle size and density so how far do you think she was when I conducted my testing I determined that the muzzle of
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the firearm was between a distance of one and seven inches from his head um specifically I produced a pattern that
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most resembled the pattern on the decedent's head uh at about 3 to 5 inch