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Courtroom Error during Opening


The opening shows the murder of the woman with a Colt .45 Automatic which holds 7 rounds in the magazine and 1 in the chamber. Edwin G says she was killed with 6 shots from a .45 revolver!

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No, Edward G. said "one shot would have been sufficient - but six!" He didn't say it was a revolver, just the number of shots.

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Actually E.G.R. did say that she was killed with a revolver. Very strange, because just seconds before, the director made the point of showing us the gun (semi-auto) that the woman was shot with.

However....this could have been deliberate. Why? to show us how the whole case against the alleged killer was botched. Now how's that for a theory?

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This man, Edward Clary,

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who destroyed her with six shots from a. 45 revolver.

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Have you any idea of the fearful destructiveness of a. 45 at close range?

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One shot would have been sufficient.

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But six. Six.

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Yep, he certainly did say 'revolver'. And to TC: It's Edward, not Edwin. Your error was worse than his... :P

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That is the first thing I noticed too. He said revolver and I had seen an automatic

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The lawyer character apparently didn't know the difference. It's a technical detail that's obvious to gun hobbyists but actually irrelevant to the trial.

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i don't know guns

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