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The English Solicitor Case |
| Author Conan Doyle actually became involved in some real criminal cases. In one case in 1906 he applied forensic geology when he argued that an English solicitor accused and convicted of mutilating farm animals was not guilty because the soil on the shoes that the solicitor was wearing the day of the crime were covered with a black mud quite dissimilar to the yellow sandy clays of the crime scene. (Murray and Tedrow, 1991, p. 6) |