POST: "Day One of Velez Innocence Hearing: A family comes to court for justice," by Brian Stull, ACLU Capital Punishment Project, published in the ACLU "Blog of Rights" on December 12, 2012.
(See Day Two link below).
GIST: "Today’s evidence began the process of exposing huge problems with the
state’s theory of Manuel’s guilt, namely that the child victim had
never been injured until the last two weeks of his life when he and his
mother moved into a home with Manuel. Before that two-week period, the
state contended, both the child had no injuries and Manuel had no access
to the child. Under skillful questioning by Manuel’s attorneys, Lyndon Bittle, partner at
Carrington Coleman, and Greg Kanan, partner at
Rothgerber, Johnson, and Lyons, medical experts outlined the bases of their findings that the child’s injuries were well over two weeks old. One expert, a forensic pathologist, showed that the already healing
injuries to the child’s brain, examined microscopically, were at least
18 to 36 days old. A second expert found the injuries were at least
three weeks to a month old, if not older; he analyzed the child’s
significant skull fractures and found them to be around the same age.
These pathologies were consistent with alarming growth in the
circumference of the child’s head in the months before his death. The
experts testified that, in the absence of other explanations not
possible here, such dramatic growth in circumference could only be
caused by head trauma."
The entire post can be found at:
http://www.aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment/day-1-velez-innocence-hearing-family-comes-court-justice
Brownsville Herald report:
http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/local_news/article_bb2b4c82-44db-11e2-9d67-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm
Day Two: Velez Innocence Hearing: ACLU account: ("State's witness dismantles state's timeline theory;
http://www.aclu.org/blog/capital-punishment/day-2-velez-hearing-states-witness-dismantles-states-timeline-theory
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
I have added a search box for content in this blog which now encompasses
several thousand posts. The search box is located near the bottom of
the screen just above the list of links. I am confident that this
powerful search tool provided by "Blogger" will help our readers and
myself get more out of the site.
The
Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty
incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the
harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into
pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology
system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent
stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html
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