re: Trey Holly posts about his innocence on IG

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They not doing forensics that fast.

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The shooting happened 9 days ago

I am with mdomingue. What is the source of your information? Unknown or unnamed "reports"?
Not saying you are wrong, but unless you've talked directly to the Judge who signed the arrest warrant or the officer who issued it, I would not jump to those conclusions.

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I’m going to ask the same thing multiple others have asked.. link? Because I have not read this.

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There is no link. Just like there wasn’t a link he was going to be arrested multiple days ago. But guess what happened? Farmerville is extremely small.

I am 100% confident when the DA makes his first statement bullet casings will me mentioned as one of the pieces of evidence used to arrest and charge Holly. Now, is it possible somehow else used his gun? Absolutely. But that will be what is stated linking Holly

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He didn’t. But now he can’t unless he wants to 100% go back on his statement. He has publicly eliminated one of his potential roads

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Irrelevant unless he was going to claim self defense. I'll take his strategy and his lawyer's strategy over anyone else's since they have more facts that you or I have. Notice every time I say "he is doing the right thing" I preface it with "if he is innocent." The alone removes the theory of self defense.

Farmerville is a small north Louisiana town that typical of these type of towns.

There are some areas of the town both in the city limits and outside them that are crime ridden and you usually don’t want to go to these areas but unfortunately families still live there and sometimes folks are put in a no win situation.

Now I have no idea what really happened but being from around there, family lives there, friends live there, and I know that area very well info will get out both true and false

We need to let the justice system do its job and pray that what Trey said in his statement is true and he can be absolved of the crimes he has been accused of.


Time will tell

What happened to this story & is this a close relative? Same apartments in 2021

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Link? I haven't seen any of that from a reliable source. And for the record, eyewitness accounts is extremely shaky. I have seen a man positively id'd by 2 rape victims only to find out it was someone else. And ballistics is pretty shaky as well. I am pretty sure some jurisdictions don't even accept it as evidence.

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First of all, having attended dozens of line ups, I agree eyewitness identifications can be wrong. In a crime a witness usually sees the offender just for a few moments in a highly charged atmosphere. You almost always need some other evidence than an id to convict.

I have not seen why he was arrested. My sense is that the people involved may know each other, so eyewitness confusion in that case is unlikely. To be sure, I don’t know if his identity is an issue in this case.

I have used ballistic experts in a number of cases. It’s reliable to about 99%, but that assumes you have the whole bullet and a good examiner. It’s still very compelling evidence. Gun barrels leave unique striation marks on bullets as they spin through the barrel. It’s like fingerprints.

You are also correct that admissibility of ballistics varies among jurisdictions. I think the general rule is to let it in for what it’s worth and let defense attys cross examine experts on reliability and call experts of their own. If you can recover a full bullet and the suspected weapon, then test fire the weapon and compare bullets with a good expert, ballistics is pretty reliable evidence though.

Of course who knows what any of that has to do with this case. Holly’s statement was curiously silent on him having a suspected weapon or not.

It’s all just a bunch of us message board guys speculating at this point. It’s concerning that evidently Holly was arrested after some investigation and assumedly the police gave him a chance to tell his side and still arrested him. If he took the fifth on arrest, that seems a bit inconsistent with his I have nothing to hide statement that excludes facts he thinks he can’t discuss for some reason.

I hope he gets off if innocent and gets convicted if not, clearly we dont have enough info at this point to know which.

I had written earlier the DA would have to let the grand jury decide, but thats only true if it’s a murder. A DA can charge on his own an attempted murder, unless the laws changed from my days.

Even so, a DA can present any case he wants to a grand jury and often will do so in highly publicized cases, even where the law doesn’t require a grand jury hearing. It’s a smart way for a DA to avoid the heat from both sides. Just let the grand jury decide instead.

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I have a hard time believing that a family wouldn’t want to know what happened to their child.

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42 year old, and the family is somewhat of a mess as well. When you already know drugs are involved it’s alot of skeletons you could I earth about your deceased family member

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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.