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On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:30:46 -0600, Peter H. Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:46:27 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:27:34 -0600, Peter H. Proctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >. >>> As a toxicologist, I get consulted on similar cases >>>occasionally. This one is textbook. Person dies in the course of >>>being arrested during which there is a struggle.. >>> >>> Autopsy shows ventricular hypertrophy and cocaine metabolites. >>>Plus a couple rather frightened cops. T'was the coke plus obesity >>>that done it... >. >>Would you be willing to testify to the points you make as a service to the >>taxpayers who will be asked to foot the bill yet another settlement? > > Sure. But that won't be necessary. This is a text-book case. >Guarantee the local medical examiner knows all about it and has likely >done several this year like it. Just like he has done a bunch of >guys dying of alcohol-induced ciirrhosis. > > For the medical literature, go to www.pubmed.gov and use >"ventricular hypertrophy" and "cocaine" as search terms. BTW, it >takes some rather serious coke use to cause it. Not that being fat >and likely diabetic didn't contribute a bunch. "Corn-bread >poisoning" we call it in the Doctor trade. > >Dr P > I knew you'd be willing. :) Seems one problem is that the media picks up on stories like or similar to this and run with it while closely followed by the radicalized activists who are looking for sure fire cases upon which to set up their usual rap about police brutality.
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