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( ' Ne Nae December 1975 Petition by Paul Schrade For an order to compel the lestimor of Witnesses; To Examine Public Records and Conduct rurther sSclentiric Tests After the final cross examination of the seven ballistics experts, petitioner Schrade, through his new attorneys Allard Lowenstein and Vincent Bugliosi, petitioned Judge Wenke for the opportunity to have the testimony of several percipient witnesses, namely L.A.P.D. Officers Robert Rozzi, and Sgt. Charles Wright and witness Angelo DiPierro, given in court as to the possibility that they had seen “apparent bullet holes" in the Ambassador pantry on the night in question. Additionally, Schrade's new petition requested the court for: (1) an exterior ballistics examination to determine the flisht path of the bullets from the moment they left the muzzle until they reached their ultimate place of rest, and (2) a spectographie and neutron activation analysis of the recovered bullets to determine their metallic constituency. Inherent in the new petition filed by Paul Schrade was the argument that percipient witness testimony (the witnesses being the police officers and Angelo DePierro) would establish that there had been “apparent bullet holes" in the kitchen pantry, which would indicate more than eight bullets were fired. Additionally, an Associated Press photograph of the police officers pointing toward a hole, and a photograph of two circled holes on the center wall divider, (two swinging doers) were attached as exhibits in the petition calling for new tests. Petitioner Schrade suggested in his December, 1975, request for further tests that the previous of doubt. Schrade and his attorneys agreed that the question concerning cannelures had now been settled, and they admitted that the striations and bore impressions on People's 47 did match up, according to five of the experts, with People's 52 and 54. But to. Schrade and his attorneys, a central underlying question still remained and this question was whether ail of the victim bullets had been fired from the Sirhan'gun. They emphasized that not ene of the seven ballistics experts had positively and conclusively connected any of the victim bullets with the Sirhan = gun. Petitioner Schrade stated that the firearms examination had been "conclusively inconclusive on the issue of a second gun." The statements of the two officers, and the other percipient witnesses, contained statements that had never been made or even suggested to investigating officers during 1968, and were now offered for the first time in 1975. However, these statements in the filed petitions concerning door holes, that "looked like bullets," were contradicted by written statements taken by Special Counsel Kranz and District Attorney investigators from the L.A.P.D. officers, Angelo DePierro, and the A.P. wire photograph editor in December, 1975. - 73 -