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in my 40 years more or less of doing this I've seen the development of all sorts of investigative tools that are
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used by the prosecution uh in cases but I think in in this case this is one of the more interesting ones we're talking
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this week about the case in Upstate New York man found dead in his car the main suspect is his best friend
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I wasn't there the way they try to link the suspect to the scene is by investigating and measuring and studying
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the spread of his headlight beams It's actually an area of study called headlight spread pattern analysis and
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they like to think that it's like fingerprints the defense was quick to label this junk science and it was up to
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the jury to decide whether they believed it or not you'll see how this unfolds on
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