Joseph Kopera, the "expert" who "proved" that the bullet that killed Gina
Neuslein came from Kulbicki's .38 revolver, claimed that he had degrees from
two universities in mechanical sciences (engineering): the University
of Maryland and the Rochester Institute of Technology. The prosecution
later claimed he "misspoke" about these credentials. How do you
accidentally claim you graduated from two universities when you did not even
attend either of them? Then they claimed that testimony about these
degrees was not material to the evidence he was giving! In other
words, our expert is not an expert. Furthermore, he's a liar.
Please believe him.
Kopera went even further. He claimed that the fragments of the bullets
recovered from Kulbicki's truck matched his weapon. But in his
notes, he observes that the bullet recovered from Gina Neuslein's brain did
not match, and that the size of the bullet from which the other fragment
came could not be determined. He ignored his own notes and gave the police what
they wanted. He lied.
Shortly after the truth of Kopera's degrees came out, he committed suicide.
"It's obvious that he cleaned the gun, because
there was no evidence of recently, recent firing," a prosecutor told the
jury. Washington Post, May 1 2010
I'm fascinated by this
piece of reasoning by the prosecution in the case of Former Baltimore police
sergeant James A. Kulbicki who was charged with murdering his 22-year-old
mistress in 1995 in Maryland.
The prosecutor had just admitted that there
was no evidence that Kulbicki's gun had recently been fired even though they
claimed he used it to murder Gina Marie Neuslein, who was suing him for
support for a child she claimed he had fathered. Kulbicki also had
numerous witnesses who testified that he was somewhere else at the time of
the murder.
Is this how evidence works? It's as if they said, his
denying it proves he is guilty because why would he deny it if he wasn't
guilty?
In fact, Kopera, the discredited expert witness, admitted in his
notes that the gun had not been recently fired, nor had it been cleaned
to remove evidence of recent firings.
Who cares, say the police.
He's guilty. We know it.
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