They brought the front door of the shooting victim's house into the courtroom. The burly detective and a bailiff lugged it to a spot near the witness stand and leaned it against the wall. Painted a deep purplish-blue, it had a small window in the upper center with a beveled-glass diamond shape surrounded by smoky-looking glass. Nine bullet holes marred the surface -- one at head-level had shattered the viewing glass, the rest formed a downward arc from right to left. The small bullets had pierced the front metal and left inverted pockmarks on the back.
We were impressed.
But what made even more of an impact (pun intended) was the photo and testimony about the shelf of cookbooks - one bullet pierced first the front door, then the side of a wooden bookshelf, then went through several paperbacks and one hardcover and came to rest in a space on the shelf between books. Tiny bullet (9mm), deadly force.
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