re: Trey Holly posts about his innocence on IG

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Matching casings to a gun is far from shaky.

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That can be a bit, depending on things.

If Holly has a gun, he might go shoot occasionally. If he does that, he might pick up his spent casings (police his brass, is the term). Could be as simple as put them in his pocket, or toss them in his car (ash tray, behind his seats, etc). Before you condemn that practice, there are some folks that reload, and want spent brass... maybe he has a family member, an uncle or somebody who does that. You get enough and next time you go see him, you drop off your casings.
Some people recycle brass. Outside of the reloading, brass generally gets you about a dollar a pound or so. Toss your brass in a bucket, every so often you go sell it and make a couple bucks.

Which then leads to... casings laying around. In his car, if he is questioned and then the car searched, they are found. Or if that isn't a typo and it WAS his house, then he has spent casings there. Maybe a couple from his pocket fell when he went to pull out his keys sometime, etc.

I'm saving some brass for hard-to-find calibers I own, and I don't (yet) reload. They're not scattered everywhere, but has 1-2 fallen under a bench or on the floorboard of my truck? Maybe. Doesn't mean I shot up the place, it means I have shot those guns and didn't leave the brass laying on the ground. I rebox them ASAP to keep them organized, but I'm also not a 19 yr old kid, I may be more organized.

All that to say: CASINGS in and of themselves are not proof of guilt.