METHOD OF DETERMINATION OF CASE SHOTS ROW ARRANGEMENT IN CARTRIDGE WITH THEIR THREE-ROW ARRANGEMENT BY REFERENCE TO SHOT TRACES ON BIOLOGICAL AND NON-BIOLOGICAL OBJECTS WITH HOMOGENEOUS STRUCTURE Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: forensic medical and criminalistic examination of traces of use of firearm. SUBSTANCE: the method of determination of case shots row arrangement in a cartridge with their three-row arrangement by reference to shot traces on biological and non-biological objects with a homogeneous structure consists in detection of injuries, determination of their quantity, measurement of the depth of penetration of case shots, comparative estimation of the depth of penetration and determination of identity of the case shot, that has inflicted the given injury, to the row processing from the fact that the piercing power of case shots grows from row to row beginning from the row adjoining the powder wad. EFFECT: facilitated procedure.