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Murder that wasn't : the case of George Gwaze /
This book tells the story of the case of George Gwaze, twice charged and twice acquitted of the rape and murder of his ten-year-old adopted niece, Charlene Makaza. When Charlene is found unconscious one morning, gasping for breath, with a high fever and lying in a pool of diarrhoea, her family rush...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dunedin, New Zealand :
Otago University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword Mark Henaghan and Harlene Hayne; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Prologue; Chapter 1: Who is Charlene?; Chapter 2: Charlene's final illness; 24 Hour Surgery in Bealey Avenue; The Emergency Department; Chapter 3: A change of diagnosis; In intensive care; Chapter 4: The family's life changes forever; Initial police investigations; The autopsy; The investigation continues; Child, Youth and Family involvement; Charlene is buried and the family returns home; Sperm on the underpants; Chapter 5: After the arrest.
- Investigations continueDepositions; Chapter 6: Enter expert witnesses for the defence; My role as medical adviser for the case; Assessing the forensic science; A dearth of expert witnesses in New Zealand; Chapter 7: The first trial; The case for the prosecution; Evidence by hearsay; The case for the defence; Chapter 8: Short-lived freedom; Post-trial report commissioned by the Crown; Family Court hearing; Hearing in the Court of Appeal; On to the Supreme Court; Chapter 9: The waiting days; Four years in limbo; Earthquakes; Chapter 10: Further forensic testing; Explaining the forensic science.
- Results of the DNA testsPetroleum jelly; Chapter 11: Expert medical witnesses for the second trial; Professor Sebastian Lucas, world expert in HIV histopathology; Professor Michael Sharland, expert in infectious diseases in children; Dr Simon Nadel, children's intensive care consultant; Dr Nathaniel Cary, Home Office forensic pathologist; Dr David Hammer, microbiologist; Chapter 12: Double jeopardy in action; The retrial; Witnesses called by the Crown; Medical expert witnesses called by the Crown; Forensic scientist witnesses called by the Crown; Further Crown evidence from police.
- Case for the defenceThe verdict; Chapter 13: Legal ramifications; The influence of medical opinion on the investigation; Medical expert witnesses for the prosecution; Timing of the briefs provided by the Crown expert witnesses; Difficulty obtaining expert witnesses for the defence; Reliance on DNA evidence; The challenge of double jeopardy; Majority verdicts; Publication of the case in the scientific literature; Chapter 14: Good versus bad science; Good science tests hypotheses; With the best of intentions; Evidence gathering by the ESR; Reporting and interpretation of the clinical findings.
- Autopsy focused on sexual trauma and suffocationWhen does good science turn bad?; Chapter 15: Conclusion; Shared idée fixe; Hickam's Dictum not Occam's Razor; Did racism play a role?; What did it all cost?; Aftermath; Notes; Index.