Posted on 11/28/2014 8:31:44 PM PST by Ennis85
(CNN) -- The last thing an attorney might expect to receive at a deposition is a brain, but that's what the man said he was handing over. A brain. In a bucket. Sliding the bucket across the table and opening the lid, the man urged the lawyer, Michael Hodges, to take it. Hodges declined. The deposition continued. This might have gone down as just on odd moment in Kansas legal history were it not for the fact that about a year later the defendant, Shawn Parcells, ended up playing an instrumental role in the case of Michael Brown, who was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in August. How many times was Michael Brown shot? Private autopsy not conclusive Parcells became an overnight media star in August when he assisted in an autopsy commissioned by Brown's family. He appeared time and again on major media outlets as a forensic pathology expert. He said over the years he's testified in court dozens of times in several states. But an investigation by CNN that included interviews with attorneys, law enforcement and physicians suggests Parcells isn't the expert he seems to be. And handing a lawyer a brain in a bucket isn't the only unusual thing he's done. No signature -- and a suspect set free In 2012, Parcells Regional Forensic Services was hired by Andrew County, Missouri, to do an autopsy on Robert Forrester, 74, who doctors said died of a brain bleed. Police suspected manslaughter. Two days before Forrester's death, he told officers that his grandson Bobby Forrester, 23, had hit him in the face and "knocked me the f*** out." Parcells told CNN he performed the autopsy on Forrester without a doctor present.
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This is bad.
oh... so CNN picked up on a story that was published by other sources months ago ?
I know it was the subject of a thread here on FR.
Kinda get the feeling they’re just back-filling the stuff they willfully ignored so nobody can say they didn’t cover it.
Months... and... months... ago.
This was on FR long before CNN thought about this story
Old story - the guy was commissioned by the Brown family attorney. They wanted someone who would twist things to suppress the overwhelming evidence that Wilson was in the right when he shot Brown.
I wasn’t aware of that. Could I have the link to that thread?
Like a line from the movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”,
“This here is OVER”! (Loved that movie) Get over it. Brown, having attacked the officer and now is dead, and Officer Wilson is Grand Jury says “NOT GUILTY”, hence NO CHARGES.
THIS HERE IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the background info.
It doesn’t matter that the story is “old” or who hired whom. What this demonstrates is the lack of process and is the kind of thing that is going to compel the Feds to get more deeply involved.
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