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AFTER HOLMES provides sixty-five studies from the casebook of internationally renowned criminalist Herbert Leon MacDonell, who has testified as a forensic expert in hundreds of trials in the United States, Canada and a dozen other countries.
No liar for hire, Dr. MacDonell's currency is science, and science is truth. Whether working for the prosecution or the defense, if the source of his retainer is unhappy with his findings, then tough cookie!
The only case-study that he has turned down in his venerable career - spanning six decades - was offered by Phil Spector's defense team. The reason, which will surprise everyone, is mute testimony to Spector's guilt in the shooting death of starlet Lana Clarkson.
The contents cover a range of case types. Included are the trials of OJ Simpson, Jean Harris, the Chicago Black Panthers, Joanne Chesimard, Thomas Randolph, Marjorie Congdon, and Michael Behenna.
Several cases are described in which the results of Dr. MacDonell's work never saw the light of day in court because it did not provide the information hoped for by the sponsoring attorneys. Perhaps most notably, MacDonell shows - for the first time - how Amadou Diallo was assassinated by Bronx police officers who, in the absence of MacDonell's testimony at trial, were acquitted of second-degree murder.
A dominant aspect of MacDonell's approach to crime-solving is crime-scene reconstruction, some of which have been elaborate and have provided unexpected insights missed by investigating law-enforcement agencies.
Although the subject matter is serious - much of it deadly serious - MacDonell deals with it in an appealing manner that makes for easy reading.
AFTER HOLMES has 110,000 words, 152 illustrations, and an index.
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