Summary and Conclusions

A. The following features among the damage patterns in the March 19 incident violate the laws of nature; none can be reproduced individually in a laboratory setting.

(1)

The presence of burn marks on Chen's wound is impossible. Bullets do not burn the skin, because the 0.1 millisecond contact time of the skin with the lead bullet, at less than $200\tccentigrade$, could not transmit enough heat to cause burn injury.

(2)

The presence of melted fibers near the bullet entrance hole on Chen's jacket is impossible, for the same reason as in (1).

(3)

The depth of Chen's abdominal graze wound, 1.2 cm, is 3 times of what can be reproduced on live baby pigs using a 1 cm long lead bullet. The length of Chen's graze wound, 11 cm, is 3 times of what can be reproduced on live baby pigs using a 1 cm long lead bullet.

(4)

The official evidence states that the lead bullet penetrated Chen's undershirt on exit, but was stopped by Chen's shirt. In experiments with the same fabrics, whenever the lead bullet penetrated the undershirt, it would have ruptured the shirt before the undershirt was penetrated. So the lead bullet should either be caught between the jacket and the shirt, or the jacket would have been penetrated by the exiting bullet.

(5)

The length of the bullet entrance hole on Chen's shirt, 2.4 cm, is twice of what can be reproduced on the same fabric with a 1 cm long lead bullet.

B. If there does not exist a range of impact parameters that will produce the totality of the features (1)-(5) above in one shot, then the March 19 incident did not happen as purported.

C. The CIB and the Lee Committee chose to exclude crucial evidence and information that would change the direction of the investigation. Most importantly, they concluded that the damage patterns in the March 19 could be reproduced with neither scientific documentation nor statistically meaningful data.