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Background: 5th metacarpal neck fractures constitute 20% of hand bone fractures. It is called "boxer fracture" because it usually occurs as a result of punching. That is why, this study was carried out in order to begin a discussion on how the forensic medical approach should be in those cases and ulti-mately to provide a consensus on this issue. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out among people who were diagnosed with meta-carpal fracture and for whom a forensic report was issued in 2017-2022. The obtained data were analyzed as numbers and percentage. Results: There were 15 case applications in total. All of the cases were male. The age range of the cases was between 12-68 and the mean age was 36.26. Fracture was found in the 5th metacarpal in 11 cases (73.33%). 5th metacarpal fracture was in the dominant hand in 7 cases. Conclusions: It was emphasized that fractures can occur in other metacarpals by direct mechanisms as a result of hand trauma, and the importance of forensic medicine specialists to approach those cases on the basis of anamnesis-origin-examination-investigation quartet. On the other hand, the issue of the dominant hand was also critical.