Bullet in suspect’s head will remain
Authorities have ended their legal fight to retrieve a bullet lodged in a teenager’s forehead, saying they don’t think they will need it to convict him of shooting at a used-car dealer who shot back.
Prosecutors and Port Arthur police had wanted doctors to extract the slug from 17-year-old Joshua Bush’s forehead, saying it would prove his involvement in a shooting that followed a burglary. Prosecutors had twice obtained search warrants for the bullet, but Bush and his attorney objected, saying it would violate his civil rights.
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