STORY: "Not guilty: Upshur jury acquits man charged in child's death," by reporter Matt Harvey, published by the Exponent-Telegram on April 26, 2013;
GIST: "An Upshur County jury acquitted a 24-year-old Buckhannon man on Thursday in the August 2010 death of his former girlfriend's 21-month-old child. The jury of eight women and four men returned the verdict after deliberating about 2 hours and 50 minutes in the case of Johnathan Queen, who was charged with felony child abuse resulting in death. Queen then went free after spending nearly two years in jail awaiting trial.........Defense attorneys Bryan Hinkle and James Hawkins successfully argued that the child's death was an accident. Upshur Prosecutor Jake Reger and his assistant, Kelley Cunningham, had argued the injuries were intentional. The key witness may have been a forensic pathologist from California who testified there weren't enough signs to point to shaken baby syndrome. That witness had been hired by the defense."
GIST: "An Upshur County jury acquitted a 24-year-old Buckhannon man on Thursday in the August 2010 death of his former girlfriend's 21-month-old child. The jury of eight women and four men returned the verdict after deliberating about 2 hours and 50 minutes in the case of Johnathan Queen, who was charged with felony child abuse resulting in death. Queen then went free after spending nearly two years in jail awaiting trial.........Defense attorneys Bryan Hinkle and James Hawkins successfully argued that the child's death was an accident. Upshur Prosecutor Jake Reger and his assistant, Kelley Cunningham, had argued the injuries were intentional. The key witness may have been a forensic pathologist from California who testified there weren't enough signs to point to shaken baby syndrome. That witness had been hired by the defense."
http://www.exponent-telegram.com/article_96d49f4a-ae7c-11e2-9d14-0019bb2963f4.html
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/
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.
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Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog.
