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DISORDER IN THE COURT |
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Word-for-word from court records . . . |
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Are you sexually active? |
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No, I just lie there. |
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What is your date of birth? |
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July Fifteenth |
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What year? |
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Every year. |
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What gear were you in at the moment of impact? |
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Gucci sweats and Reeboks. |
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This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? |
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Yes. |
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And in what way does it affect your memory? |
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I forget. |
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You forget. Can you give us an example of something you’ve forgotten? |
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. . . . . . . . . . |
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How old is your son, the one living with you? |
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38 or 35, I can’t remember which. |
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How long has he lived with you? |
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45 years. |
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What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning? |
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He said, "Where am I, Cathy?" |
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And why did that upset you? |
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My name is Susan. |
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Do you know if your daughter has ever been involved in voodoo or the
occult? |
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We both do. |
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Voodoo? |
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We do. |
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You do? |
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Yes, voodoo. |
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Now Doctor, isn’t it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he
doesn’t know about it until the next morning? |
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The youngest son, the twenty year old, how old is he? |
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Were you present when your picture was taken? |
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So the date of conception was August 8th? |
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Yes. |
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And what were you doing at that time? |
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She had 3 children, right? |
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Yes. |
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How many were boys? |
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None. |
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Were there any girls? |
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How was your first marriage terminated? |
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By death. |
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And by whose death was it terminated? |
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Can you describe the individual? |
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He was about medium height and had a beard. |
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Was this a male, or a female? |
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Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? |
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No, this is how I dress when I go to work. |
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Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? |
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All my autopsies are performed on dead people. |
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Do you recall the time that you examined the body? |
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The autopsy started around 8:30pm. |
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And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time? |
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No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him. |
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Are you qualified to give a urine sample? |
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Isn’t everyone? |
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Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? |
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No. |
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Did you check for blood pressure? |
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No. |
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Did you check for breathing? |
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No. |
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So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? |
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No. |
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How can you be sure, doctor? |
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Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. |
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But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? |
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Yes, it is possible he could have been practising law somewhere. |
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