Can anyone talk about the court testimony in regards to the bruises? Many of the supporter websites are using the bruise pics to sway sentiment in her favor. Again, it just doesn't jibe.
You can get a long bruise from IV blood drainage.
Testimony of Dr. Janis Townsend-Parchman, Medical Examiner for Dallas County:
17 Q. Okay. Doctor, will you share with the
18 jury some of your knowledge with respect to bruising, how
19 it occurs. And, you know, when I bump myself, it really
20 doesn't look all that bad that day or the next day, but
21 it's on down the line. What happens? What causes that?
22 A. What bruising or contusions are, is a
23 breakage of very small blood vessels, usually capillaries
24 in your skin, or the subcutaneous tissue, or let's talk
25 about the extremities to make things easy.
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2 THE COURT: Could you speak up just a
3 little bit louder.
4 THE WITNESS: Okay. Let me try to
5 repeat.
6 We're talking about the breakage of
7 very small blood vessels, or capillaries in the skin or
8 the subcutaneous tissues or the muscle, or sometimes all
9 of those.
10 If they break in the skin, usually you
11 will see the bruise within 24 hours.
If you bruise or
12 break the blood vessels in deeper structures, then it
13 takes a while, a variable length of time, for the blood
14 that comes out of the broken blood vessels to work its way
15 up into your skin, so that you can actually see a bruise.
16 And I expect most of you have had that experience.
17 We, of course, have bumped into things
18 and by the next day have seen a bruise. But I expect most
19 of us have bumped into something, or gotten clobbered by
20 something pretty hard, and
you didn't see anything for a
21 day or two, or maybe three or four, but eventually the
22 bruise, as we say, comes to the surface and you do see it.
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24 MR. DOUGLAS MULDER: Mark these too,
25 please.
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