Dr. Harlin screws the pooch...again
Getting to a bit of local news here...the notorious Dr. Charles Harlin, whose controversial tenure as Tennessee Medical Examiner has plagued this state for years, has caused a mother to go through a living hell. This was posted on the AP State Wire a short time ago. It is long past time that Tennessee got themselves a new medical examiner. I doubt we're going to see any episodes of CSI: Nashville aired on CBS anytime soon.
Overdose murder charge dropped against mom of disabled teen
WINCHESTER (AP) — Saying the autopsy report was wrong, a prosecutor Friday dismissed a murder charge against a mother accused of killing her severely disabled with an overdose of medication.
District Attorney Mike Taylor told a judge that new tests showed 15-year-old Ashley Mignano, who had cerebral palsy, did not die July 4 from a fatal dose of phenobarbital. The teenager’s mother, Margaret Mignano, had been arrested in August and spent a week in jail before she was freed on $200,000 bond.
The autopsy report was signed by Dr. Charles Harlan of Nashville, a forensic pathologist who is defending his medical license against state charges of misdiagnosing causes of death in other cases and destroying evidence in criminal investigations.
Mignano’s attorney, Bob Peters, said he and Taylor were in court for an unrelated case when the prosecutor surprised him by telling a judge that “follow-up testing did not indicate a lethal dose” of the drug, used to control the girl’s seizures.
Neither the prosecutor nor the lead investigator in the case immediately returned a call seeking comment, but a court clerk confirmed that Taylor said the murder charge was dropped.
Harlan’s report included outside lab tests showing the teen had lethal levels of the barbiturate in her system. The defense argued that Mignano, who moved her family from Scotch Plains, N.J., about a week before the death, followed doctors’ orders in using the drug.
Harlan, who continues to practice while fighting the state charges, declined to comment Friday about the Mignano case. A woman who answered the phone at his office referred questions to the prosecutor.
“We have passed on all the retesting and re-retesting to the district attorney general,” the woman said she was instructed to tell reporters.
posted by bkm at 2:11 PM
6 Comments:
This is the biggest miscarriage of justice I have ever heard about. Why was there only one test done, beforet this poor woman was put through what I am sure was a living hell? Doesn't anything count on her side- like dedicating her life for 15 years to this young child? Did anyone bother to look into her past to see if there was anything, that could warrant her doing anything like this?
What happened to innocent before proven guilty?
It's not only Harlan's fault, it's Investigator Danny Warren's fault too.
I hope this woman sues the shit out of all of them.
This is the biggest miscarriage of justice I have ever heard about. Why was there only one test done, beforet this poor woman was put through what I am sure was a living hell? Doesn't anything count on her side- like dedicating her life for 15 years to this young child? Did anyone bother to look into her past to see if there was anything, that could warrant her doing anything like this?
What happened to innocent before proven guilty?
It's not only Harlan's fault, it's Investigator Danny Warren's fault too.
I hope this woman sues the shit out of all of them.
This is the biggest miscarriage of justice I have ever heard about. Why was there only one test done, beforet this poor woman was put through what I am sure was a living hell? Doesn't anything count on her side- like dedicating her life for 15 years to this young child? Did anyone bother to look into her past to see if there was anything, that could warrant her doing anything like this?
What happened to innocent before proven guilty?
It's not only Harlan's fault, it's Investigator Danny Warren's fault too.
I hope this woman sues the shit out of all of them.
This is the biggest miscarriage of justice I have ever heard about. Why was there only one test done, beforet this poor woman was put through what I am sure was a living hell? Doesn't anything count on her side- like dedicating her life for 15 years to this young child? Did anyone bother to look into her past to see if there was anything, that could warrant her doing anything like this?
What happened to innocent before proven guilty?
It's not only Harlan's fault, it's Investigator Danny Warren's fault too.
I hope this woman sues the shit out of all of them.
Someone has to pay. Franklin County destroyed this woman. Television cameras, all the bad press. Why is everyone in such a hurry to condemn someone, before they have proof positive? Why wasn't another test ordered before this lady was arrested, and her good name smeared all through the press?
I for one, would not like to be in her shoes. It's amazing- the charges are dropped, and not much publicity. But when she was arrested (although wrongly) she was on television and in the paper. Why is that?
We have become bad news obsessed. Some one should shoot Danny Warren and his gang. They all need to be replaced. We need competent people in their jobs, not incompetents.
Somebody needs to pay.
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