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S3 Ep107: Kathleen Peterson: Experts At War (Part 3)

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What's the Difference Between an Expert Witness and a Showman?

The first person from the medical examiner's office to see Kathleen's body and to give an opinion on what had happened to her was Dr. Kenneth Snell. In this report, Snell wrote that he determined the probable cause of Kathleen's death was a closed head blunt force injury to the head due to an accidental fall down the stairs. And during the trial, Snell said, quote, any of this information may not be correct. It's quite routine. That information in this report gets changed in some fashion. I filled it out before the autopsy had even begun. End quote.

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