That is what expert witnesses are paid to do, yes. I wasn't trying to suggest that the original coroner was the average joe in that description. The prosecution are just selecting witnesses most likely to support their case.
Well, of course they are going to interview "expert witnesses" and select the one most persuadable to spin the autopsy report as best they can. If I was a corrupt lawyer, that's what I'd do. Anything to make it rain.
I had a Great Uncle who was always in court, suing people or being sued for being a scumbag backstabber. I was talking to his daughter about his life long obsession with weaseling his way into business with unsuspecting people and all the time he spent in court instead of with his business. I just didn't understand the man. His daughter clued me in. One time when her dad and her mom were having an argument he lost his temper and started shouting, "I'll do anything for money, I'll do anything for money, I'll do anything for money! Do you understand?!!!"
This is how many of these people think. They don't care about reputation, being seen as slimy or a shyster, because they'll do anything for money and power.
Well, of course they are going to interview "expert witnesses" and select the one most persuadable to spin the autopsy report as best they can. If I was a corrupt lawyer, that's what I'd do. Anything to make it rain.
Well, it is somewhat corrupt if they're knowingly perpetuating falsehood, but at the same time trials are an adversarial process. It's the duty of the prosecution to make the strongest case they can for conviction, including selecting the strongest witnesses to support that case, while leaving aside the weaker ones. The jury are the ones who are supposed to be neutral and objective.
I had a Great Uncle who was always in court, suing people or being sued for being a scumbag backstabber. I was talking to his daughter about his life long obsession with weaseling his way into business with unsuspecting people and all the time he spent in court instead of with his business. I just didn't understand the man. His daughter clued me in. One time when her dad and her mom were having an argument he lost his temper and started shouting, "I'll do anything for money, I'll do anything for money, I'll do anything for money! Do you understand?!!!"
What a guy. I wonder what caused him to be that way.
What a guy. I wonder what caused him to be that way.
Some people are just born assholes. His dad was an asshole like that too. I worked for both of them at one time. They'd dock my pay for some of the most inane bullshit they could come up with. Like, I'd see I was low on gas, drive my truck to a filling station then head back to the shop to pick up a load. I'd just look at my gas gauge and see that if I picked up a load first, I ran a high chance of running out of fuel. Back then there were no cell phones so it would mean a long walk out in the country and maybe begging to use the phone at a farm house. So I got docked for driving a few extra miles out of my way. Another day I went out to pick up a load and the wind was so strong my hoist was all over the place. Even with my wife helping we couldn't control the hoist so we gave up and drove back to the shop. I was docked for the entire trip which was most of a day. Another time I was sent out for a load and the alternator failed. It completely ran the battery down before I fingered out what the damn problem was. I stopped at a gas station to call them for help and yep, you guessed it. I was told I was gold bricking and had my pay docked. Another day I was sent out with a truck, again with my wife, and they hadn't maintained the tires. I said something about the back tires being shit but they didn't want to listen. Tires are fine. So, coming back with my load two back tires failed on one side. I walked to a farmhouse and called for help. They tried to blame it on me somehow and told me I could just walk the 30 miles back to the shop. I was so pissed I got back to the truck and drove ten miles to a gas station and told them to charge it to the company on the company card. Just replace the smoking ruins of the back tires. Then the father came out and lost his mind screaming about how I'd better not have ruined the rims on their pile of shit truck. See, if they had come out, maybe it was just a hole in the one tire and we could have removed it, repaired it and saved the other back tire. But no, they want to be rude and play games, I can play too.
Apparently one of the adopted kids of that family had similar ideas because he deliberately torched a truck complete with it's load and claimed it was an accident. I examined the scene after the fire was put out and discovered evidence the fire had been deliberately set.
Shitty people have shitty things happen I guess. I left that same month and went to work for some other relatives. Not ideal but at least I didn't get docked for the most insane stuff.
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