:twocents: okay, I :innocent: read it and my salient points of the report are:
SKULL: "no evidence of pathological changes or deformity" To which I :innocent: query as tested by WHAT methodologies: just his X-RAY eyes? (I'm :innocent: trying to be NICE here!)
Argue with the need to "open" the skull BUT will agree that standardized autopsy protocols WOULD demand that. Of course, that's MANDATORY when permission for or the need to perform a FULL BODY post and release the cerebral material (aka BRAIN!:crazy
from the SKULL. IF I :innocent: had a disarticulated skull and a FULL autopsy suite with lots of "bells & whistles" like District Nine, I'd :innocent: utilize MY "education, training and experience" and evaluate it, opining under a reasonable degree of medical certainty what I observed!:seeya:
Disagree with the hypothesis re: sediment especially when he states one paragraph later that he was aware:waitasec: of the saline wash!
His challenge to Jan's statement re: 1. duct tape placement is predicated on HIS skull positioning based on the precipitated sediment. SO....:waitasec:challenge a statement with a THEORY, not FACT? :waitasec: WOBBLY, at best IMHO.
2. DNA results not present BUT he doesn't emote a "WHY" or even if one should expect then to be there!
3. Okay, he wants "bugs" from orifices but proceeds to explain that epithelial cells (skin) would be expected to adhere to the tape. :truce: (apples & oranges, mixed in one theorem!)
Overview: :waitasec: I question if he was aware of the environmental issue involved in this case given the statements above. I :innocent: am concerned if HE took tox samples but thrilled that he acknowledged that tox testing was negative for drugs. :woohoo:
Final thought: :maddening: Why was this written 3/10/11 when the post was performed 12/23-24/2008? :banghead: AND WHERE ARE HIS "BENCH NOTES" :floorlaugh:
(LKB will rue the day she "taught" folks about getting ALL the data!:floorlaugh::floorlaugh