“The medic says he was trying to open the man’s windpipe to save the man.”
The medic just testified he put his thumb over the trach and choked him to death.
So here’s how it goes, to make it simple for you.
Gallagher watched that one episode (in the 70s) of the Young and Restless where Snapper performed an emergency tracheotomy on a guy by stabbing him in the throat and then inserting an empty pen case into the hole, to keep the airway open.
So Gallagher starts the emergency trach, and Scott, the medic, finishes it by inserting an air tube.
I believe it.
Interesting legal move. The guy with the knife gets off because of conflicting testimony. Then it will be hard to convict the medic because of course he will plead the fifth at his own trial — and all the other witnesses will testify again that Knife Guy did it.