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Forensic scientist Rick Wyant holds up a shell casing found at the scene of a fatal shooting of an illegal immigrant on Jan. 30, 2023, in Arizona, in Santa Cruz County Superior Court in Nogales, Ariz. , on March 29, 2024. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times
NOGALES, Ariz.—Lawyers for George Alan Kelly, the Arizona rancher accused of gunning down an illegal immigrant, pressed a ballistics expert on what the government “can’t prove” with available physical evidence.
On cross-examination, forensic scientist Richard Wyant conceded that the evidence does not directly connect Mr. Kelly to the firearm that caused the fatal shot.
