GIST: A Middlesex County superior
court judge has denied a motion to dismiss murder charges against
Aisling Brady McCarthy, a Co Cavan
woman accused of the murder of Rehma Sabir, a 12-month-old infant from
Cambridge, Massachusetts. In
a separate ruling that was not immediately made public, Judge Maureen
Hogan also, in part, denied a motion by defense attorneys for Ms
McCarthy (36) to exclude certain expert medical testimony. Many
of those experts are now expected to testify at trial that Ms McCarthy,
a nanny, caused death of Rehma Sabir by shaking her in a way that was
not accidental in January 2013.........The judge excluded the testimony
of one expert who had studied injuries to the child’s backbone. “It was
clear his opinions were influenced by the previous record,” said the
judge. Regarding
testimony from another expert who said compression fractures of the
baby’s vertebra had been consistent with abuse, the judge said: “she
will be allowed to testify.” As to the timing of the fractures, the
judge ruled: “she has never opined in her report as to the timing.”
Another expert will testify that injuries sustained by the infant were
“not an accidental injury,” the judge said. Information
in a report prepared by another doctor who said “she could visualize
the bilateral haemorrhages” would be allowed, the judge said. But
testimony will not be allowed from a doctor who found “that the
haemorrhaging was non-accidental trauma” and consistent with repetitive
force from shaking. The judge said “my reading of
the grand justify (testimony was) that it was consistent heavy
acceleration and decacceleration injuries and when she was asked if it
was one way or (a) second (way) she didn’t conclude one way.”
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