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Old 2010-06-26, 07:44   Link #11715
Oliver
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Originally Posted by Leafsnail View Post
I suppose... but wouldn't he at least be able to tell the difference between "blasted in the face with a 00 round" and "killed with damage done to the face after death"?
He should be able to see if the wound contains any traces of gunpowder with a naked eye, which would reliably distinguish "blasted in the face" from "face smashed in". Determining whether the smashing in occurred in a living person is possible without a microscope, but it requires far more serious examination than Nanjo ever does.

Nanjo has a lot of opportunities to determine proper causes of death for many of the corpses found, many of those opportunities require nothing except a scalpel and bright lighting. He just never uses them.
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