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Wildbill
"I haven't read Ayoob's article, but is this an instance of a person getting convicted because he used handloads, or because he killed his wife?"

I agree that it could be seen either way. But Ayoob presented it as the husband was innocent and he was convicted because of the handloads.

The situation Mas Ayoob wrote about was a case in which a husband claimed his wife committed suicide using his handgun with handloaded self defense rounds. According the husbands reloading notes, the gunshot residue would indicate that the gun was fired at close range, well within the reach of the wife if shooting herself. The prosecution argued that the court could not trust the husband's hand reloading notes and with powder loadings that would be expected in self defense rounds, the gunshot residue would indicate a firing distance greater than the reach of the wife; i.e. she could not have shot herself. The court bought the prosecutor's argument and the husband was convicted of murder.