The planted hand gun


Just how many peoples finger prints would have been found on it? It originally belonged to the obese, alcoholic helping TLJ who fingered it and then TLJ himself held it and then placed it in the serial killers hand after he had been shot unarmed by the rosie the fed. Any half arsed investigation would have discovered this and cast her defence that he was armed into severe question?!!

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Fingerprints are not the issues - they can be wiped. But they would've had to fire the gun in the dead guys hand to get the blast residue on it for realism. Furthermore, that whole aspect of the plot was too neat. Why did he take the gun from the dead cop in the first place? It was almost like he knew he would need it to plant in the hand of the guy who killed the gun's owner. Too neat of a coincidence - not believable... unless I'm missing something.

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They wouldn't need to fire it because they just needed probable cause for her to shoot him, not frame him for a murder. Also in response to the OP, the handle of the gun was taped. I've seen several cop movies where taping it like that prevents reliable print extraction. I think that's why Lou says its a "drop price" because you can make it look like whoever held it without worrying about prints.

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LEGAL FACT: He did not need to plant the gun for it to be justifiable homicide. Prove me wrong.

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The thing that was sloppy about that was that when Dave removed the drop-piece gun from Lou, he left the ankle holster there. Surely when the body is examined later, the empty holster still strapped to his ankle would be noticed. Why Dave didn't just take the whole thing, I don't know.

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