Discussions of evidence found in blood-spatter patterns and in the DNA of blood samples became standard, if not appetizing, dinner-table talk, and armchair criminalists second-guessed officials ...

Cicero spoke as a “blood stain spatter” expert who has testified in 34 different criminal cases. Cicero is a crime scene ...

For example, lab technicians may look at photographs of blood splatter patterns and conduct ballistics tests on bullets found at the crime scene to determine the direction from which a shot was fired.

He spent almost a decade in prison before a retrial in 1966 acquitted him based largely on forensic blood spatter testimony. The case became one of the most famous and controversial murder ...