[ComputerGuy]

...the expert told the Court that the medics failed to contact dispatch to notify them that they were "abandoning" the patient, a violation of standard operating guidelines (SOG) of scenes of violence response...

Who decided that 'abandonment' was going on?
Who injected that word into the conversation?

[Gen.Blather]

“Who injected that word into the conversation?”

A lawyer as if it’s abandonment, it’s against the law. My understanding of abandonment is you start working in the person and then leave. (But that’s the only sense I’ve ever heard the word used in as a legal term.)