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48 Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1370 against Koludrovic is insufficient. In his official report he stated that more than one shot was fired at the raiders as they entered the apartment and he reiterated this conclusion at the Coroner’s inquest. There was, however, no evidence of an agreement, either tacit or express, between him and any other defendant to conceal or distort facts about the raid. His task at the apartment was made especially difficult by the raiders’ disruptive search prior to his arrival and, if his examination of the premises was less than thorough, the evidence suggests that this was the result, at worst, of negligent rather than intentional conduct. There is, however, evidence—and reasonable infer- ences—pointing to Sadunas’ participation in the post- raid conspiracy. Sadunas’ initial ballistics test was incomplete; he compared spent shotshells from the ° apartment only with the weapons seized at the apart- ment and ignored the weapons which had been used by the raiders. His examination resulted in a crucial misidentification which would have remained uncor- rected absent Zimmers’ subsequent tests and con- clusions. When he learned of Zimmers’ findings, Sa- dunas retested the shells comparing them with all the weapons—including those of the raiders. After these tests, Sadunas readily admitted his mistake. Given this set of events, we think that the determination whether his misidentification was the result of professional incompetence or conspiratorial conduct should have been left for the jury. C. Participants in the IID Investigation Meade and Mulchrone, through their participation in the IID investigation, were not involved in the dimen- sion of the conspiracy which resulted in the imprison- ment and prosecution of the survivors without legal basis: rather, their actions reasonably could have been found to have encouraged the continuation of the unfounded prosecution by suppressing the development of inconsistent evidence against the raiders, Hanrahan, and Jalovec. Police Superintendent Conlisk initiated the