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We have reached a dangerous pass if people are to be deterred from testifying on the ‘wrong’ side of politically fraught cases.
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disturbing trend is forming in the aftermath of the Derek Chauvin verdict.
A second expert witness — Dr. David Fowler, an internationally renowned forensic pathologist who served for years as Maryland’s chief medical examiner — is now being subjected to harassment and defamation for having had the temerity to testify in the ex-officer’s defense case. Maryland’s attorney general has announced an investigation of 17 years’ worth of Dr. Fowler’s cause-of-death reports for “in-custody” cases. The state government was pressured to take action against Fowler by a letter signed by 431 doctors. That effort was led by Roger A. Mitchell, a …