People v. Jackson Daniels: The shooting of Riverside Police Officers Dennis Doty and Phillip Trust

Bryan R. Burnett, John David Sabow

Abstract


In 1982 Officers Dennis Doty and Phillip Trust entered a residence in Riverside, California to arrest Jackson Daniels, a wheelchair-confined felon.  Upon entering the house, both Doty and Trust were involved in an exchange of gunfire with Daniels and were killed. Jackson Daniels was convicted of the homicides in 1985 and was retried in 2009.  Our study reinterprets the evidence and emphasizes the use timeline graphics to present the crime scene reconstruction.  The original presentation of an incomplete crime scene reconstruction could have contributed to Daniels’ successful appeal after the 1985 trial.

 

Key Words:    Forensic science; criminalistics; shooting scene reconstruction; timeline

Keywords


Forensic science; criminalistics; shooting scene reconstruction; timeline

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ISSN 1942-7794

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