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"Expert witness" has forever been deemed a useless title to me after watching the Derek Chauvin trial. They had a medical professional, I forget his qualifications exactly, but I believe coroner adjacent, professor, and some medical board member of some sort. Anyway, he testified, under oath, that is was possible, even probable, that Floyd did not die from asphyxiation due to the officers knee and weight on his neck and back, but from carbon monoxide poisoning because he was prone near a running cars exhaust, outdoors.

You could absolutely tell this guy was lying through his teeth the entire time. He quoted misleading lab statistics, like o2 levels in blood, like it was conclusive evidence of carbon monoxide poisoning, yet reluctantly confirmed under cross examination that those were expected levels for someone who had been given CPR.

It felt filthy just listening to someone with zero integrity completely misrepresent basic medical fact so grossly, under oath, as a professor and some hospital medical group board member. Someone who you should be able to trust implicitly, who seemingly has been responsible for dictating hospital medical policy in some form.

After that, I understood that you can pay some asshole in any position to testify whatever the fuck you want to in court. To out right lie.

That professor should lose his job for this shit

Yeah when you take the Obi Wan stance of, 'what I told you was true, from a certain point of view' in court, there should be some repercussions. Like we get there can be different points of view but if 9/10 people say one thing, that 1/10 person's view probably shouldn't count when figuring out the truth in court and is basically wasting time. Though I think this is up to the judge to decide so it was mostly a delay and seem like they have some sort of defense for his followers.

It works on the incompetent rubes. Had an idiot on Facebook saying some shit like "80% of indictments were thrown out". Not a motion to dismiss, but they had already been tossed out. Some quick google-fu only showed they tried to have evidence excluded for like 80% of the indictments due to statutes of limitations. They lost. The evidence was kept in. I might be getting some details wrong, but it was in no way a "win" for trump.

The loser has been radio silent since asking for a source. Usually he's on top of it, posting like a dozen propaganda puff piece articles that are all the exact same article rehashed on different right wing "news" sites.

Frivolous lawsuits are actually rare. Much like most news, we only hear about the crazy shit, because it's crazy shit.

Local AM radio lawyer talks about this a good deal. These lawyers are not bringing stupid shit before these judges, who they know and have to work with. Keep fucking around and they face sanctions and disbarment.

Trump's lawyers do not seem to get this. I'm not saying the state bar should kick their ass for representing the man. But can we get a little more action here?