Lt. Samuel D. Greene took command, continuing the circling tactics, aiming amidships where Worden believed shots had already broken Merrimack's plating.
The officials do not believe shots were fired at any point, they said.
Mr. Simpson also noted with particular frustration a February ruling in which the Supreme Court ruled that vaccine makers are protected from lawsuits by parents who believe shots harmed their children.
After viewing the replay, Van Gundy also still believed the shot was illegally launched from behind the backboard.
The Lakers fans in an electric Staples Center believed the shot was at its apex when O'Neal swatted it several rows into the stands.
If you close your eyes, the iconic photograph of King's friends pointing off into the distance, at the place from which they believed the shot was fired, comes into sharp view.
(He believed his shot at Broadway had been sabotaged by a conspiracy of Communist intellectuals led by Lillian Hellman, and he wound up suing Otto Frank, whom he compared to Hitler).
A wound ballistics expert and a medical examiner testified that they believed the shot to Mr. Diallo's chest was one of the last to strike him, after he had sustained 15 or 16 wounds to his left side.
From what he saw, he believed the shots were fired at fairly close range.
"He believed in shots that maybe you don't hit as often.
But it is believed the shots of the monkey on set have not previously hit the public domain.
