article_snippet.sent: The district attorney's office told Jefferson County Circuit Judge Laura Petro Wednesday that their forensic experts couldn't determine if six crime scene bullets — which were the crux of the evidence against Anthony Ray Hinton at an expected retrial —
article_snippet.sent: came from a gun investigators took from his home.
article_snippet.sent: The experts did not say it did come from the pistol or that it didn't come from the pistol.'
article_snippet.sent: The experts were unable to tie Hinton's gun to the bullets used at the crime scene. '
article_snippet.sent: Three highly-qualified and experienced ADFS forensic scientists, who are experts in the field of firearms and tool mark identification, each performed independent forensic examinations of the submitted bullets and firearm,' the motion to dismiss charges said. '
article_snippet.sent: Utilizing comparison microscopy, each expert inter-compared all six bullets recovered during the investigations of the three crimes to each other and to bullets test fired through the barrel of the firearm taken from (Hinton's) home.'
article_snippet.sent: Chief Deputy Jefferson County District Attorney John Bowers said that the experts who examined Hinton's gun did not find enough evidence to prove Hinton's involvement. '
article_snippet.sent: Due to insufficient corresponding individual microscopic characteristics, the experts who examined the gun found that the experts who examined the gun could not conclusively determine that any of the bullets used at the crime scene were or were not fired through the same firearm or that the experts who examined the gun were fired through the firearm recovered from (Hinton's home),'  the motion continues. '
article_snippet.sent: Based on the microscopic comparisons and conclusions of all three of the ADFS firearms and tool mark identification experts, the State does not have sufficient evidence to warrant further prosecution of these cases.'