Angle of the ricochet seems kind of acute, at least at the ranges your giving.
Penetrating wound from a straight shot should be a round puncture; if the bullet was a ricochet the wound should be keyholed or at least pretty distorted, pathologist should be able to tell you that.
You might try contacting some of the ballistics experts on military bases in your area, or even their Corpsmen or Medics. They aren’t experts and probably couldn’t testify, but they have seen an awful lot of these types of holes in both materials and flesh (unfortunately).
They could probably direct you to some real experts.
Pics indicate an oblong-ish hole. I haven’t seen the ME report, personally. It was only yesterday that I had my initial conversation with the atty on the case.
He had not even CONSIDERED some of the points I made: Ballistics from 10 feet, floor analysis for gunshot residue/metal fragments, etc.
Once I got him going, he asked for my help in clearing his ignorance up. I’m not an expert witness in the case...neither am I getting paid at this point. There were just some glaring problems with the state’s case that I HAD to bring up.
I think it’s interesting that many on FR either malign me as an attorney (which I’m not), suggest this is the wrong place to be getting information (which is wrong), tell me to use other resources (which suggests they think FR is the only one I’d use. I guess that says more about them, really) or tell me I’m showing my hand to the state.
I’ve had only a few out of many that actually address my questions. And that’s what I sought.
Yours is one of them.
Thank you.