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If the defence can create enough doubt that the gun was his, I doubt they have a case otherwise.
Especially considering the jury may well be quite sympathetic to him.
I think people on the internet vastly overestimate how sympathetic a jury will be.
Probably, but isn't the healthcare system pretty much universally despised in the states?
Tbf just because he had a gun on him doesn't mean he was the shooter. I have a gun on me, am I the shooter Greg? Plenty people have guns, and it's even legal to have a 3d printed gun, and even if he was concealed carrying without a permit, "so?"
"Of course he has a gun. This is Texas, everybody has a gun. My florist has a gun!"
I presume they tested it to confirm it was the murder weapon?
Kinda, yeah if the barrel and striker matches up that'll be tough to beat. That could be easily thwarted though by running a rough brush, or changing the barrel with another one, and changing the striker, and if he's worth his salt he ditched those before he even left the city. And even a match isn't necessarily 100% proof it's the gun, just like 99.999% lol.
Honestly, I do think it was him, personally. Just playing devils advocate.
Having a 3D printed gun on you isn't something most people do though, so it's not a good look.
If they can prove the search was illegal, they can throw out the backpack evidence entirely.