Posted on 08/19/2014 10:50:13 PM PDT by beaversmom
Professor Shawn Parcells is a forensic pathologist assistant and medical investigator from Kansas City. He explained to the world how 18 year old Michael Brown died.
Parcells was hired by the Brown family’s attorneys. But, he says he motivated by a quest for the truth for loved ones who have been left with only the revolting image of a bullet-riddled body left lying in the street.
“The Brown family has been left out in the dark. At the end of the day, they’ve been left out in the dark.” said Shawn Parcells.
He says that officer shot Brown from a distance beyond, “close range” or 1-2 feet; the bullets striking brown from the front.
“If you put your hands up like this your trying to block yourself, it could come from the front. You put your hands up like this it could also come from the front.” said Shawn Parcells.
But it wasn’t that long ago he was the focus of a lengthy expose in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The May 2013 article stated that according to coroners and medical examiners in Missouri, Parcells “has inflated his qualifications and performed autopsies without a medical license.” That worried some coroners, who felt Parcells’ could “jeopardize criminal cases, potentially allowing a murderer to go free.”
Last month, John Beger, the prosecutor in Phelps County, asked to delay a murder case, just two weeks before it was set for trial, because of questions about blood work handled by Parcells’ company for a toxicology report in a drug death.
Beger filed the motion after Dr. Edward Friedlander was deposed on April 8. Friedlander is one of the pathologists who formerly worked for Parcells; the doctor’s name was signed on a report listing the cause of death in the case as a heroin overdose.
Friedlander, however, “testified that he had not signed the report, that it was not his signature on the report, that he had not been consulted concerning the death,” the document said. It added that he “had not authorized anyone else to put his signature on the report and that he had no knowledge of the case.”
The case was continued and is now set for a five-day trial beginning June 24.
Neither Friedlander nor Beger would comment. Parcells said he had no knowledge of what Friedlander said because he was not at the deposition.
Similar questions have surfaced in a domestic assault case in Andrew County, in northwestern Missouri. Police say they are looking into an autopsy performed in August 2012.
According to the autopsy report, Dr. George Vandermark was the forensic pathologist on the case. But the report lists Friedlander as the pathologist who reviewed and signed the paperwork.
Grant Gillett, a detective with the Andrew County Sheriff’s Department, said that he was present at the autopsy and that neither Vandermark nor Friedlander had been there. He said Parcells and a female assistant were the only ones present.
Parcells said he had no idea how Friedlander’s name got on the document.
“In fact, he wasn’t even working for our group then,” he said. “I am not sure how that report got his name on it, unless someone changed the name on it.”
Parcells said that even though Vandermark was not at the autopsy, he did review photos, tissues and other tests. He added that the report was incomplete.
Regarding the allegations of doing autopsies without a license, Noah Mays, the former coroner of Gentry County, said he actually witness Parcells do an autopsy by himself:
last summer, Mays said, he and a sheriff’s deputy traveled to Topeka, with a corpse, an apparent suicide. Parcells had agreed to handle the autopsy, he said. They met Parcells at a facility he owns behind a funeral home, in the basement of an old carriage house.
Every other time Mays had attended an autopsy by Parcells’ company, a pathologist had been present. But not this time. Parcells was doing the work by himself, Mays said.
“We asked him multiple times ‘Is this cool? Is this kosher? What’s going on? Is this legal?’ and he says, ‘Oh yeah, I do it all the time; it’s fine.’ ”
The lingering controversy surrounding Parcells was a frequent topic of discussion at the Missouri coroners’ annual fall meeting last year and at the recent spring meeting, Mays and other coroners said.
“People were saying pretty much that he was just cutting them open, signing the paper, and the rest is your problem,” said Mays.
Oh, and about those inflated credentials:
...a few months ago, his LinkedIn profile stated he had been a graduate student at the University of Florida for two years, but he acknowledges that he never attended a class there.
Currently, he lists New York Chiropractic College under his education, but he just finished his first trimester as an online student. He also lists himself as a professor at Wichita State University, but Jean Brickell, chair of medical technology there, said Parcells only assisted at a clinical site one time.
Parcells said he was not trying to misrepresent his education.
Really?
And from his LinkedIn profile, still:
Read More at link...
I tried to get a good portion of this article on the thread, but difficult to do with formatting and my tired/bad eyes. Please read in its entirety at the link. Link also has videos included.
Missouri Coroners Question Practices of Forensics Company Operator (2013)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3194850/posts
Holder will have to find someone with better credentials to find that the Gentle Giant was shot in the back, just like Trayvon.
Calling Reverend Dr. Sharpton.
So? It just means that the family’s sketchy guy agrees with the town’s ME and with Michael Baden
Baden didn’t do the autopsy, Parcells did and then Baden gave his opinion of it.
Crump hired him.
The story was in the NY Times and was written by Frances Robles who was the “Miami Herald’s lead reporter on the Trayvon Martin case” and who “specializes in social justice issues.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3194811/posts?page=1
The Times article features a photo of Baden and “Prof. Shawn Parcells”.
From the same Times article:
“Dr. Baden said he consulted with the St. Louis County medical examiner before conducting the autopsy.”
Which gives the impression that Baden conducted the autopsy.
Yeah. Baden was on Hannity’s show today. I was under the impression that he did the autopsy. Did Hannity know this or was he in on it? I know he can be a dunce at times.
He probably didn’t know it. But that’s just my opinion.
An autopsy presented as the work of a reknowned medical examiner was performed by a professor who isn’t a professor and who may not be qualified or legally able to perform autopsies.
The autopsy is then publicized in an article written by a reporter who appears to behave as a publicist for the lawyer who hired the person doing the autopsy.
What a web of deception.
And they still agreed that the original autopsy was correct and all shots were from the front
Yes, but on Hannity’s radio show today Baden said the autopsy report raised the question of why the officer would fire so many shots in a public area, and how that would be irresponsible because a bystander could have been shot. (Because these are the kinds of opinions a medical examiner is eminently qualified to give) / sarc
Baden is not a cop. The man kept advancing what the hell was he supposed to do? Let the bad guy break his other eye socket, take his gun, and then kill him? I don’t look to Baden for anything other than medical facts
Fortunately, Crump is a blundering moron.
His investment in Baden was a major loss for his clients' cause (even if limited to Baden's expenses, Baden having waived his $10k fee in the interest of notoriety).
They could make a movie out of this. They could call it “Shawn of the Dead.”
I saw the man being interviewed, he came across as the complete fake that he is.
“He’s a Democrat. That’s all the credentials he needs. Any questions?” said a voice over a loud speaker at a worker’s commune.
Plus, he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express the night before.
Let's not forget that Dr. Michael Baden once had a positive reputation.
That was before he testified for the defense in the Claus von Bulow trial, the O.J. Simpson trial ('Nichole and Ron were killed by two different killers with two different knives"), the Phil Spector trial, those trials where his own wife was the defense attorney, and so on, and so on, and so on.
His opinion is now available for a price.
I am surprised and disgusted that a very prominent forensic pathologist like Dr. Baden would consent to stand at the same podium with a fraud—and let him spew nonsense.
By doing so, he debases his own credibility and his profession.
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