[Peace-discuss] Ch 3 News said Kiwane was shot "during a struggle"...

[Karen Medina]

Also note that Norbitt was not checked for alcohol or drugs.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Karen,
> 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:
>
> Dr. Scott Denton, MD, Forensic Pathologist, performed the autopsy on
> October 10, 2009.  A toxicology screen was run, the results of which
> indicated that Carrington had THC in his system, indicating recent marijuana
> use.  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.  Dr. Denton observed no
> evidence of close range firing.  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.  Such tests would be necessary to further determine
> the range of the weapon.
>
> 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?
>
> I hope last night's meeting was productive and that the result will be a
> Champaign Citizen's Police Review Board.
>
>  --Jenifer
> *
> *
> --- On *Mon, 3/15/10, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Ch 3 News said Kiwane was shot "during a
> struggle"...
> To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 10:32 PM
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> Shouldn't this be re-investigated as a criminally negligent homicide at the
> very least??
>
> This excerpted from Wikipedia seems to apply.
> The full entry is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter
> Criminally negligent manslaughter
>
> *Criminally negligent manslaughter* is variously referred to as *criminally
> negligent <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminally_negligent> homicide* in
> the United States <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>.
>
> It occurs where death results from serious negligence<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence>,
> or, in some jurisdictions, serious recklessness<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recklessness_%28criminal%29>.
> A high degree of negligence is required to warrant criminal liability.
>
> 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. It is most common in the case of professionals
> who are grossly negligent in the course of their employment. 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??]
> [edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manslaughter&action=edit&section=13>
> ]
> Where are the Carrington's lawyers on this???
>  --Jenifer
>
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