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The prosecuting authority must rely on expert post-mortem reports to confirm firearm injuries to avoid mistakes in attributing cause of death.

“Experts have to check, is this wound consistent with an injury that can be caused by a bullet, and then make their report and say this injury is consistent with a bullet wound, and only then can I, as a prosecutor, then certainly say this body, the person was killed with a firearm.”

The report and guidelines cited are published in a journal of the profession and are authored by several highly regarded experts, possibly in a peer-reviewed journal.

“it is published in a journal of the field, is authored by several highly regarded experts in the field and it is ... I believe it is a peer-reviewed journal.”