Part 1

For this week, please use the following as your prompts for discussion:

1. How can you estimate the size of a knife from the injury?

2. Why does it matter where someone is stabbed?

3. Why do we never re-insert a sharp injury back into the wound while in the field to verify that we have the right weapon?

4. How does the blade on a knife affect the appearance of a knife injury?

5. Why is it important to collect possible weapons from a scene?