Posted on 08/26/2020 12:45:47 PM PDT by MJacks4
The police were vindicated in Baltimore after the Freddy Gray thing and ensuing riots/ burning down of the town so you don’t know. Ellison May have gotten a little overzealous/ gone too far with the charges against them like the city attorney of Baltimore did.,.
I think the muslim Ellison got what he wanted.
Chaos, burning, looting, murdering. What happens at the trials a year from now won’t matter. He can create another fake crime by then.
I think the counterfeit 20 freaked out a lot of people... and so a web was spun...
It’s put into pills that are counterfeit, resemble prescription pills. This would be absorbed orally and take longer to peak than sublingually.
“Fentanyl traffickers use fentanyl powder and pill presses to produce pills that resemble popular prescription drugs, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and Xanax . The pills are sold in illicit U.S. drug markets, and users typically do not realize the pills are laced with fentanyl. The amount of fentanyl intended for each tablet is very small, and operators risk creating hot spots, or areas of higher concentrations of fentanyl in the pills”.
https://aapca3.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Fentanyl-and-Counterfeit-Pills_OnePage.pdf
This won’t be slam dunk to acquit. The “lethal levels” are not definitively quantified.
“Likewise, patients who take opioids chronically may have blood levels well above what the laboratory reports as a “toxic” level and yet show no signs of intoxication or impairment.”
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/32a1/026762ef64dcfb1c68ab1a85514d17ab3b1c.pdf
“physicians need to be aware of the fact that tolerant patients are often able to function with opioid levels that would be considered “toxic” or even “lethal” if found in a postmortem investigation.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3951636/
“A ME/C must use caution when relying on case studies and published tables of toxicology results, which are often based on a few cases and provide little or no contextual information about specific case details.”
“Postmortem redistribution (PMR) is unpredictable in magnitude and direction and may not occur in every case.”
I don't think that terms like "definitively quantified" is consistent with the idea of raising doubt. To find guilt, the jury will be instructed to conclude guilt only if it is beyond a reasonable doubt. If this report has any validity at all, the job for the prosecution got much harder as it has to show that Floyd's death was not caused by some other factor such as a potential poisonous substance in his system.
Another way of saying what I was trying to say in #46 is that the defense doesn’t have to prove that Floyd died of a drug overdose, only that he could have. Reasonable doubt only requires a plausible alternative that this report seems to provide.
“published tables of toxicology results, which are often based on a few cases and provide little or no contextual information about specific case details.”
If the ME states that Floyd had a lethal dose of fentanyl, he will have a lot of trouble defending that statement when the existing data on lethal doses is very weak.
On cross examination it won’t look good if the ME bases his diagnosis on scant data. He’ll end up having to decide on whether it’s likely asphyxiation v fentanyl OD. If ME looks ambivalent and Floyd’s expert is not, that’s going to be tough for the cop’s defense.
Finding out the level will be important.
Floyd’s mental status before he was apprehended by the cop will be key.
You know, I wish that juries did take the reasonable doubt standard seriously, but they do not. I think there has been a change over the past 20-30 years.
I have seen enough cases where doctors were charged or convicted of wrongful death when the patient ODed on multiple drug combinations, reckless use of prescription drugs and suicides. Even when the patients had safely used these medications on stable doses for years.
Thnx for the link/info.
I don’t know how to fully interpret the autopsy numbers, but 11ng/mL of fentanyl in the sample would equal about 0.79 milligrams total in his bloodstream (if my math is correct). Plus the Norfentanyl that had already been metabolised.
I guess it only takes one juror who does to get a hung jury. The protesters claim they want justice for George Floyd. I hope all involved get justice. If the cops' actions resulted in Floyd's death, then I hope they get convicted (although I'm not sure about 1st degree murder as charged as I don't see intent) but if the cops weren't responsible, then I hope they are acquitted.
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