</s>Investigation, and a court order that the Grand Jury conducted its investigation. and the court order was obtained directing the County Clerk to preserve the evidence and not to allow persons other than the court clerk assigned to the case. At the termination of the trial, the evidence their representatives, to view evidence. At case, the court clerk was held in the chambers of the Presiding Judge where, a courtroom was held to the court. A court order from Judge Walllined. A clerk to show the exhibits to attorneys of record only, and only when notice had been given to the other side. This was to insure the evidence, and to insure that the integrity of any law firm was ever given notice by the County Clerk's Office exhibits would be preserved. However, no member of the District Attorney's staff was ever present notice by The County Clerk's Office examining the exhibits during almost a year. Many of the people by unauthorized persons for almost year. examinating the exhibitsduring 1970 and 1971 did not have proper authorities. exhibitions. 1975 - Proposed Tests By 1975, new criticism of Sirburn case involved several law enforcement agencies. Previous two-gun advocates and critics had been noticeably critical of L.A.P.A .- criminalist Delaney Wolfe. and the possibility of serious ballistics evidence discrepancy. But in light of the cloud of suspicion concerning government after with Watergate scandal, the term official version was received with the court's official notice. The court was received repeatedly heard that not only the L.AP.D. but the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office in general, and, District Attorney preventing the particular, were stonewalling, covering up, and had one demand that was central to their theme: demand that the Sirburn weapon that was fired. Despite the fact that at the Ward tested that a classical Lowell Bradford and Herbert MacDonnell bullets with the test fired bullets would be a necessary preliminary step before any determination could be made as to the with the Wolfer's test filed bullets. The need to determine up gun would be moot), a growing demand was made that the Sirburn weapon be retired. Habees Corps and a attorney, Godfrey Isaac, had filed a writ of court in January, 1975, alleging every previously cited theory of including the affidavits of William Harper, Herbert MacDonnell, including the affidavit of the State Supreme Court turned the 1974 Baxter Ward hearings, but the State supreme Court turned down the writ in February 1975. This did not seem to discuss the critics that there should be a new complete reinvestigation of the Robert Kennedy murder. 20

The investigation into the Robert F. Kennedy assassination involved a critical examination of evidence, including ballistic tests and expert analysis.

A Grand Jury conducted an investigation in 1971 regarding the integrity and utility of exhibits at the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of assassinating Senator Kennedy. The investigation revealed serious violations of court orders and sloppy handling by the court inspector, which compromised the evidence.

DeWayne Wolfer, a criminalist with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), conducted ballistics tests on the evidence bullets in 1968. However, during his testimony at trial, he stated that no two barrels would ever impart the same impression or striation on projectiles as they passed through them.

The experts conducting the re-examination of exhibits and subsequent test firing of the weapon concluded that there was no evidence of a second gun. They found that all the bullets had been fired from the same weapon, but were unable to positively identify individual characteristic marks on the bullets with the Sirhan weapon.

Three experts (Blasotti, Garland, and Cunningham) found that three particular evidence bullets (People's 47, Goldstein 52, and Weisel 54) had been fired through the same weapon. However, they were unable to match them up with the Sirhan weapon due to the severe led condition of the barrel.

The investigation into the Robert Kennedy assassination was connected to the broader context of presidential assassinations and conspiracies. The examination of ballistic evidence in the Sirhan case raised questions about the scientific evidence generated in the investigation.

Ballistic evidence from the Sirhan gun and the wounds on Senator Kennedy and other victims was examined. Testimony from witnesses, including Henry Carreburn, Michael Saccoman, Alvin Clark, Judy Royer, Martin Petruksy, and Rafer Johnson, was also considered.

Findings from the examination of Sirhan's eyes and pockets at the Rampart station were reported. The investigation into the Robert Kennedy assassination and related matters continued to be a significant focus for authorities.

The appointment of Thomas F. Kranz as Special Counsel to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office on August 14, 1975, was an important development in the ongoing investigation.

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