ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of Berry’s One Stop Store robbery in Wayne County, Tennessee. The forensic gait analyst initially performed a preliminary review of the questioned footage and determined that, although some of the video was not suitable for use in forensic gait analysis, sufficient footage was suitable to make a comparison. For each usable segment of footage of the robbery, the expert utilised the Sheffield Features of Gait Tool, which provides a systematic, validated method of analysing a person’s gait. The expert concluded that the figure in the questioned footage and the subject in the reference footage had no features of gait that precluded them from being the same person, and that their gait was similar enough for the forensic gait analysis evidence to provide limited support for the proposition that they were the same person. The chapter also includes a case study of two armed bank robberies.
