Key witnesses weren't interviewed. Contrary to regulation, investigators told Bouyer not to fill out a report about what she saw and heard, although she had vital information. In later deposition testimony, Bouyer, like Singleton, said no one, including Ledford, got close enough to Walton to take anything. Spearman testified in a deposition that Walton did not have a gun. He said Walton ran with clenched fists and never looked back at Martel.
Some reports appear suspicious.
Besides Martel's retyped report, another report by Martel's academy supervisor, Kelley, contains what appears to be a later insertion, which bolstered Martel's account of Walton pulling a gun on him. Police relied on two neighborhood residents who had been drinking all day to corroborate Jones' account of the gunfight. Galbraith looked stunned during a videotaped deposition when Greenman told him Mieczkowski had recanted and that even Martel had said there was no shootout. Dobreff, another of Walton's lawyers, said he was amazed that police were willing to build their criminal case on two men who had been drinking all day. Police didn't perform key scientific tests.