[Influence of muscle contraction on wound measurements after defined dynamic stabbing tests (author's transl)]

The following questions were considered: Are the results of dynamic stabbing tests (experimentally taken from corpses) acceptable for forensic purposes? What about the influence of muscle contraction and wound measurements after defined violence? It could be demonstrated that in dynamic stabbing tests rigor mortis in muscle is equivalent to an extreme muscle contraction. It was easier to perforate a limb with stretched muscles than with relaxed ones. Very seldom people are wounded having stretched their muscles extremely. Therefore, quantitative results of dynamic stabbing tests in corpses represent the minimum of reconstructed stabbing dynamics in vivo.