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RE: forensic science
Wes,
You raise an interesting question. We agree that such an exposure
would not, techniically, be permitted by our regulations. However, if a
judge makes an informed decision and issues a court order, we would
allow the exposure.
Alternatively, we could seek statutory authority and write a
corresponding regulation to allow such an exposure but that would requre
a lot of resources so we'll opt for the common sense approach.
Gerald Nicholls
NJDEP
609-633-7964
>>> "Wes Van Pelt" <wesvanpelt@ATT.NET> 03/26/03 04:17PM >>>
Radsafers,
David North stated:
I have personally used diagnostic x-rays to assist a state attorney
general
in prosecuting a case of assault with a deadly weapon. The defendant
claimed
that he fired a pistol in self-defense against a "friend" who was
allegedly
attacking him with a length of steel pipe. There was a small piece of
metal
imbedded in the friend's groin which the defendant maintained was a
chip of
the pipe knocked off by the defendant's bullet as he was being
attacked. I
was able to show by means of three orthogonal radiographs of the
victim's
groin that the metal piece was consistent with a distorted .32 to .38
caliber slug, not a jagged shard of pipe. ....
I believe that the diagnostic radiation dose applied to the man would
have
been illegal in NJ as it had no medical benefit to the person. Any
comments
from NJ DEP personnel?
Regards,
Wes
Wesley R. Van Pelt, PhD, CIH, CHP
Wesley R. Van Pelt Associates, Inc.
Consulting in Radiation Safety and Environmental Radioactivity.
http://home.att.net/~wesvanpelt/Radiation.html
mailto:wesvanpelt@att.net
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