Harris County Challenges its own Expert Witness’ Credibility

by Matt Sharp

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office has decided to pursue charges against an expert it has used in multiple murder cases. A pathologist is a doctor who examines a dead body to determine cause and time of death among other things. If the State wishes to prove up that someone was murdered they rely on the truthful testimony of a pathologist to get that proof. If their pathologist has a history of falsifying government documents, lying to authorities, or just lying in general, then a jury is likely to disbelieve the pathologist and will be more likely to uphold the presumption of innocence. Read More on this Article

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Hot Coffee Documentary Goes After Tort Reform

By Thomson Reuters NEWS & INSIGHT

NEW YORK, June 24 (Reuters) (CORRECTED)- It was the case that launched a thousand jokes. The McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit came to represent for most people everything that's wrong with the American civil justice system-a plaintiff with a serious shortage of common sense, a huge windfall in damages and a waste of everyone's time...Read More on this Article

ProPublica Provides Database of Payments to Physicians by Pharmaceutical Companies

ProPublica, the "independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest," has created a searchable database of payments made by pharmaceutical companies to doctors - usually as compensation for presentations the doctors make that discuss the companies' drugs.

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