Reveille to Revolution: Criminal judge ignores medical examiner, declares murder an accident!
OHIO - May 4, 2008 - A Summit
County Common Pleas judge ordered the county medical examiner to delete any
reference that Tasers contributed to the deaths of three Ohio men.
All three men were in an 'agitated'
state and 'on drugs' when police officers shot them with Tasers, and the judge
ordered their deaths be ruled 'accidental' also that any reference to
"homicide or "electrical pulse stimulation" should be deleted
from death certificates and autopsy reports."
Five sheriff's deputies had been
indicted on charges related to the death of one of the men, who also had a
history of mental illness. The judge further ordered that man's death be ruled
as "undetermined" and to "delete any references to homicide and
the death possibly being caused by asphyxia, beatings or other factors."
The court hearing centered around
the "very narrow issue" of whether or not the use of the Taser Model
X26 could contributed in any way to the cause of death.
A Taser International spokesman
issued the following statement after the court ruling:
"Taser International believed
from the beginning that these determinations of cause of death must be
supported by facts, medical research and scientific evidence," spokesman
Steve Tuttle said in a prepared statement Friday.
As of mid-April, 68 wrongful-death
or injury lawsuits have been dismissed or judgments entered in favor of Taser,
according to the company. The company has not lost any product-liability
lawsuits.
The attorney from the prosecutor's
office representing the medical examiner said of the case:
"It was an interesting case
and an uphill battle," said Manley. "Taser is quite a force to be
reckoned with and does everything to protect their golden egg, which is the
Model X26."
Ed. Note: When is enough, enough! When is it time for the people to form vigilante
mobs and string up the judges who take the law into their own corrupt hands?