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A US judge today ordered a retrial in the infamous ‘Bambi’s Mummy’ shooting, which has continued to generate controversy and media interest ever since the seemingly random murder shocked an entire nation.

The famous young fawn Bambi became an orphan after the brutal woodland murder. Following intense pressure to make an arrest, police finally charged Elmer Fudd, a lone hunter with learning difficulties linked to a chronic speech defect. Mr Fudd, described as a ‘short friendless social outcast with an interest in firearms’, was an easy fit for the desperate detectives even though he always maintained he was out ‘wabbit hunting’ at the time of the shooting.

However the judge this week decided that the jury had been ‘misled’ by prosecutors about the significance of the invisible speck of firearm discharge residue that was found by forensic scientists more than a year after the event. It also transpires that information was withheld from the jury concerning potentially damaging revelations about the career of Bambi’s mother. Only subsequently has it emerged that as a young doe she had appeared in low-budget ‘hide-flicks’ such as ‘Buck Rogers’ and ‘Deep Goat’.

Mr Fudd has already been acquitted of aggravated arson after careful study of contemporary footage revealed the forest fire to have been caused by an accident. In a separate case, a judge has dismissed as ‘completely without evidence’ the repeated claims that Roger Rabbit may have been framed.

jhart

Posted: Dec 6th, 2007 by jhart