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Question

Pretend you're advising a crime laboratory director concerning the adoption of a new method in forensic science to apply to ballistics. Choosing either forensic optical topography for firearms impression evidence or organic gunshot residue analysis. What are two recommendations as to whether the laboratory should adopt these new methods. Justify your recommendations by using specific examples of correlating scientific research for the method, referencing one past wrongful conviction ballistic case as a warning to support your recommendations of the new method, and considering and detailing the history of "traditional" firearms impression evidence (in the case of optical topography) or inorganic gunshot residue analysis. Keeping in mind that prior technologies have their own strengths and weaknesses. How could the new, proposed method provide more reliable or probative information?