<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Karen,<div>I just reread the report released by Julia Rietz. Testimony from the officers looks as if the "struggle" stuff was inserted after the fact. There was this from the pathologist to suggest that this was the case:</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="background:yellow;
mso-highlight:yellow">Dr. Scott Denton, MD, Forensic Pathologist, performed the
autopsy on October 10, 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A
toxicology screen was run, the results of which indicated that Carrington had
THC in his system, indicating recent marijuana use.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Dr. Denton determined cause of death to be a
gunshot wound of the left arm with reentry into the chest, with the direction
of the wound to be left to right, front to back, and downwards.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Dr. Denton observed no evidence of close
range firing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In a follow up phone
conversation, Dr. Denton indicated that he defines close range firing as less
than 18 to 24 inches, that he saw nothing obvious to suggest close range
firing, but that he conducted no tests on Carrington’s clothing to for the
presence of soot or gunpowder residue.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Such tests would be necessary to further determine the range of the
weapon.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conspicuously absent from the report was anything negative in Norbit's record, specifically that this was the second death he was responsible for. I haven't been following the most recent reports, but hopefully he hasn't been allowed to return to work?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I hope last night's meeting
was productive and that the result will be a Champaign Citizen's Police Review Board.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> --Jenifer </span></span></p></div><div><b><i><br></i></b><br>--- On <b>Mon, 3/15/10, Jenifer Cartwright <i><jencart13@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13@yahoo.com><br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Ch 3 News said Kiwane was shot "during a struggle"...<br>To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><br>Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 10:32 PM<br><br><div
id="yiv1372520164"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><div id="yiv408335018"><br><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="bodyDrftID" class=""><tbody><tr><td id="drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">I was just watching Ch 3 News for info on tonite's mtg re how to improve police relations w/ the community. Jennifer Roscoe ended the story by saying that Kiwane Carrington had died after being "shot during a struggle w/ police." Isn't this a re-write?? I don't recall hearing that there was any struggle or that Norbitt was even close to Kiwane when his (Norbitt's) gun "accidentally went off," killing Kiwane.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Shouldn't this be re-investigated as a criminally negligent homicide at
the very
least?? </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This excerpted from <span>Wikipedia</span> seems to apply. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The full entry is at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;"><h3 style="color:black;background-image:none;background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.3em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-color:initial;font-size:17px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Criminally_negligent_manslaughter">Criminally negligent manslaughter</span></h3><p
style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.5em;"><i>Criminally negligent manslaughter</i> is variously referred to as <i><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminally_negligent" title="Criminally negligent" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 43, 184);background-image:none;background-color:initial;">criminally negligent</a> homicide</i> in the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 43, 184);background-image:none;background-color:initial;">United States</a>.</p><p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.5em;">It occurs where death results from serious <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence" title="Criminal
negligence" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 43, 184);background-image:none;background-color:initial;">negligence</a>, or, in some jurisdictions, serious <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recklessness_(criminal)" title="Recklessness (criminal)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 43, 184);
background-image:none;background-color:initial;">recklessness</a>. A high degree of negligence is required to warrant criminal liability. </p><p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;margin-left:0px;line-height:1.5em;">Criminally negligent manslaughter occurs where there is an omission to act when there is a duty to do so, or a failure to perform a duty owed, which leads to a death. The existence of the duty is essential because the law does not impose criminal liability for a failure to act unless a specific duty is owed to the victim. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 0);">It is most common in the case of professionals who are grossly negligent in the course of their employment.</span> An example is where a doctor fails to notice a
patient's oxygen supply has disconnected and the patient dies (R v Adomako). [Or where a policeman fails to put the safety back on his gun after seeing that the subject is unarmed??]</p><h4 style="color:black;background-image:none;background-color:initial;font-weight:bold;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0.3em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0.17em;border-bottom-style:none;border-bottom-color:initial;font-size:15px;"><span class="editsection" style="float:right;margin-left:5px;font-size:13px;font-weight:normal;">[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manslaughter&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: United States Law" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0, 43, 184);background-image:none;background-color:initial;">edit</a>]</span></h4></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Where are the Carrington's lawyers on
this???</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> --Jenifer </span> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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