PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Chief justice Tom Bathurst has adjourned the Inquiry until February 2023, noting that the parties involved in the inquiry needed time to process the new evidence. We are hoping the truth - and science - will finally set Kathleen free. As Kathleen's friend Tracy Chapman notes about the new evidence: "Beyond reasonable doubt? Hell yes!""
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POST: "Kathleen Folbigg Inquiry adjourned early," by 'Justice For Kathleen' Editor Alana House, published on November 15, 2022.
GIST: "The first hearing block in the Kathleen Folbigg Inquiry commenced on 14 November 2022 and was listed to run for two weeks.
However, it was adjourned today for three months to allow experts time to review new evidence that has been presented.
Genetic experts Mette Nyegaard and Michael Toft Overgaard travelled from Denmark to give evidence at the Inquiry.
They are co-authors of research published in March 2021, that found a rare inherited genetic mutation, CALM2-G114R, may cause cardiac arrhythmias and sudden death in children.
The genetic mutation was found in Kathleen's daughters Laura and Sarah. Their research has found that the rare genetic mutation interferes with sodium and calcium levels, which are important for heart function.
“Would you say if it was ‘likely’ that the girls died by reason of the variant?” junior counsel assisting the inquiry, Julia Roy, asked the scientists.
“We think it is likely this mutation could have caused the death,” Overgaard said.
“It looks like a bad variant,” Nyegaard agreed.
Read an explanation of why CALM2-G114R can be deadly in Cosmos Magazine.
Chief justice Tom Bathurst has adjourned the Inquiry until February 2023, noting that the parties involved in the inquiry needed time to process the new evidence.
We are hoping the truth - and science - will finally set Kathleen free.
As Kathleen's friend Tracy Chapman notes about the new evidence: "Beyond reasonable doubt? Hell yes!"
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resurce. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. 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 Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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