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Medical Examiner, Whose Testimony Helped Convict a Man in 2004 of Killing His Baby, Now Says He Was Wrong (newsie.social)

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Medical Examiner, Whose Testimony Helped Convict a Man in 2004 of Killing His Baby, Now Says He Was Wrong

The former Nashville medical examiner has recanted his testimony that Russell Maze’s son had died of shaken baby syndrome, joining the DA’s office in now saying a crime never occurred. Yet Maze could still spend the rest of his life in prison.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/russell-maze-nashville-medical-examiner-recants-testimony

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] it was a dingo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

“If called to testify now, I would assert Bryan Maze’s brain, at the time of his death, showed no indication, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, of prior trauma or abuse,” stated the former medical examiner in a sworn affidavit.