Stunning! New Floyd Case Exhibit Confirms Witness Coercion

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By John Dale Dunn, MD, JD

On July 29, District Court Judge Peter Cahill, the presiding judge in the trials of the four Minneapolis police officers indicted for the death of George Floyd, ordered the release of an exhibit memorandum that reveals a miscarriage of justice and criminal coercion of a witness.
 
Dr. Roger Mitchell, the former deputy mayor and medical examiner of the District of Columbia and now the Chief of Pathology at Howard University Medical School, a traditional Black medical school, boldly intimidated and coerced Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker into changing critical conclusory language in his autopsy report on the death of George Floyd.
 
The exhibit is a written summary of Mitchell’s commentary and some admissions of coercion that he volunteered to Minnesota Attorney General Office prosecutors in November 2020.  Mitchell’s perfidious conduct is discussed in this excellent article by Jack Cashill.
 
Dr. Andrew Baker, an experienced and well-regarded Chief Medical Examiner for Hennepin County, conducted an autopsy on Mr. Floyd on May 26, 2020, the day after his death and reported later that day, “The autopsy revealed no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation or that excessive force was used in the restraint performed by the officers led by Officer Chauvin.
 
Three days later, on Friday, May 29, prosecutors elaborated on the cause of death in posting their initial complaint against Derek Chauvin. According to the complaint, “The full report of the [medical examiner] is pending but the [medical examiner] has made the following preliminary findings. The autopsy revealed no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”
 
The autopsy did show, however, that Floyd had severe heart disease, coronary artery disease, and an enlarged heart from high blood pressure. These conditions put Mr. Floyd at risk for sudden death from cardiac arrhythmia — abnormal ineffective lethal heartbeat.
 



 
Before you proceed, think about that: Baker’s initial clean impression, without corrupting pressures, was that Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers were in no way responsible for George Floyd’s death.
 
Without a diagnosis of asphyxia, the State could not prosecute the officers for murder.  That is why Dr. Roger Mitchell was so critical in this tale of intimidation — and why this exhibit memorandum is so important. It reveals a naked attempt by Roger Mitchell to bully Dr. Baker into a conclusion that would enable a second-degree murder prosecution of the police officers.
 
Don’t take my word for it. Here is how the Minnesota prosecutors summarized their meeting with Dr. Mitchell in the memorandum:

When the preliminary result came out via the criminal complaint, Mitchell found the statement was bizarre. Mitchell was reading and said this is not right. So Mitchell called Baker and said first of all Baker should fire his public information officer. Then Mitchell asked what happened, because Mitchell didn’t think it sounded like Baker’s words Baker said that he didn’t think the neck compression played a part and that he didn’t find petechiae. Mitchell said but you know you cannot have petechiae and still have asphyxia and can still have neck compression.

This phone call likely took place on Friday, May 29. Mitchell had a restless weekend as he drafted an op-ed for the Washington Post. His next step was pure intimidation:

Mitchell was expecting to send the op-ed to the Washington Post on Monday afternoon so Mitchell called Baker first to let him know that he was going to be critical of Baker’s findings. In this conversation, Mitchell said, you don’t want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn’t see what they saw. You don’t want to be the smartest person in the room and be wrong.

The Cashill article cited above explains how Baker appears to have yielded to the pressure. In his second call to Baker, Mitchell insisted “neck compression has to be in the diagnosis,” and Baker ultimately added “neck compression.” Without that addition, Chauvin could not have been charged with murder.
 
Not being a physician, Cashill asked me to assess the Mitchell conduct and his review of Baker’s work. I answered Mr. Cashill’s questions because I can.  I am an attorney admitted to the bar in Nebraska, Louisiana and Texas by examination and I have a career-long interest in studying cause of death, especially sudden cause of death. I have been an emergency physician since 1974, an attorney since 1979 and have co-authored with a pathologist a chapter on forensics for a textbook published by the American College of Legal Medicine: Legal Medicine: Legal Dynamics of Medical Encounters (Mosby, 1988 and 1991) .
 
What follows is a bit long and technical. I am hoping that those involved with the defense of the 4 officers, close to the show trials will find my answers and commentary helpful.  My analysis of the Mitchell interview memorandum is in italics.

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This was the genesis for the entire “defund the police” movement. It was all based on a lie. Another left wing lie. Nothing the left believes in is not rife with lies. They prefer lies to the truth because the truth does not advance their agenda.

Look what this lie has caused. Look at the crime, the rape, robbery, assault, murder, all due to left wing lies. Lies we KNEW were lies, but promoting a racist hate pogrom was more important to the left than the losses to the citizens.

Of course, there is also Chauvin and his fellow officers. Hell, EVERY officer that left their jobs or have been harassed because they wore the uniform. All because of left wing lies.

The left is destruction. Nothing but destruction. There is nothing progressive about destruction. Destruction is not liberal, either. And it isn’t destroying something bad to replace it with something good; it is destroying something great to replace it with something proven time and time again to be the worst on earth.

the ten pillars of marxism; destroy all current history, rewrite past and current history predicated upon communist’s guidelines and than enforce the new history.. burn all books in all the libraries in America. There is a new form of terrorism, in which everything is destroyed or butchered-demorat party has become this new form of terrorism

MOS: burn all books in all the libraries in America….”
Nope.
Too many uber-liberal librarians would be put out of work.
Better to simply replace all the books they want destroyed by books they want the public to read.
Prominent at my local library are books about “social justice” and “all the various new ‘sexes.’ ”
Gone is “The Old Man and The Sea,” “Brave New World, ” and for all of Salt Lake County there is only one copy of “1984.”

You can donate to Obama’s library. I guess he spent too much on his mansion in the path of rising oceans and his self-congratulatory birthday party.

6 dollars
60 dollars
600 dollars

Oh… did they say that out loud? Mark of the bitch.

If you look at the proposed structure than delete some of the appendages of the alleged main structure what do you see??? Need to look closely-a Mosque. Surprise!

the socialistic gov in oregon signed a very secret bill in july that will allow hs students to graduate without the ability to read, write and preform simple math problems. No joke. so replacing the “The Old Man and The Sea,” “Brave New World, ” with new sexist books that they can not read. recall that futuristic socialistic societies no one is allowed to read, write or think. All propaganda is dispersed via mass medial.

They won’t need to read, only listen and obey.

Breaking news ….The Pig Governor of NY has resigned. This distraction from the election audits is over.

Another liberal god exposed for what he is: lying scum. i wonder if he made deals to not be prosecuted??

Next the Governor of Commiefornia

This was the expected lynching of white man…for being white.

It’s also a mis-trial, but what does that mean anymore? Four years of eroding due-process and objective interpretation of the Law has made our Legal System nothing more than opinion.

The truth is is coming out and their Dirty Laundry is still Dirty these Liberals and the BLM/Antifa