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Today's episode is Exit Wounds.

This is Colin Miller. I'm an associate

dean and professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, and I blog at Evidence

Prof blog. I'm joined, as always, by Susan Simpson. Susan is an associate at the Volkov Law

group, and she blogs at the view from L2. Now, unfortunately, Rabia couldn't join us today, but she'll be back next week. In the last couple of episodes, we've discussed how at trial the state made a concerted effort to piece together the various pieces of Joey Watkins character in order to establish a motive for killing Isaac Dawkins.

Today, we'll also discuss a concerted effort by the state to put together various pieces of evidence, But in this case, we're dealing with literal pieces.

The fragments of bullet found in and around Isaac Dawkins struck,

which the state tried to piece together to establish who was killed with a 9mm bullet.

Stanley Kubrick based his 1987 movie Full Metal Jacket on Gustav Hasford's novel, The Shorttimers.

Kubrick changed the title to full metal jacket in part because this was the type of ammunition,

a hard-cased bullet with soft material on the inside that was used by soldiers during the Vietnam War.

But the title is also metaphorical.

The military takes the view that you must break someone down before you can build them back up.

But this assumes that as in the myth of Prometheus, man is composed of clay.

But man is predominantly made of water, and water seeks its own level.

In the opening Paris Island section of the film, Arlie Ermi's gunnery sergeant tears down Vincent DiNofrio's private pile under the belief that he can build him back up into

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