Do you have links to any of those reports? Dr. Kobilinsky, the "expert" on the Abrams Report panel today, said it would not be unusual. At the very least, I would think it would be standard if there were even the slightest hint of intoxication.
I must say, every time I see this "expert", he seems to shade his answers in favor of Nifong's case.
I do not have any links.
I saw it on TV shows. They said it was SOP for someone taking a Rape Kit and especially in light of the police saying she was passed out drunk.
Experts are will shade now, as you say. In the beginning we were told it was Standard Operating Procedure or SOP for a Toxicology report to be taken. One show had a former N.C. SANE Nurse on the show (6-7 ago now). The woman stated the training for a SANE nurse in N.C. and then they asked her about TOX testing. She said she can't imagine it not being done.
Of course, they did say the patient has the right to refuse, and I think that is what happened here.
Nifong said in a Court of Law during a court proceeding that he was turning over everything he had. It is bad news for Nifong either way. Did he mislead the court?
I think there is no TOX test, and the DAs office is hoping that it is not discovered that the Patient refused the test.
It is the DA's don't ask, don't tell policy. If no one can "recall" in court then it can not be said with certainty that the AV refused the TOX. I can hear Nifong saying, we will never know why that test wasn't done.