Forensicwx
Final Roll Call 4153. STLCO 10-42 10/13 @ 1519
....prosecutors in a Canadian court introduced a very unusual piece of evidence in the murder trial of 46-year-old Brad Barton, who’s charged with killing a woman in 2011.
While the deceased victim, Cindy Gladue, was obviously not there to testify, chief medical examiner, Graeme Dowling, managed to incorportate Gladue’s vagina into his testimony.
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The cause of Gladue’s death was “blood loss due to an 11-centimeter ‘perforating, sharp injury'” inside her lady parts.
She died in Barton’s Yellowhead Inn hotel bathroom.
The victim’s intimate anatomy was projected on large screens so jurors could examine the wound. At one point, Dowling even put on rubber gloves and moved the the body part around.
Based on the evidence, Dowling claims Barton used a sharp knife or broken piece of glass to cut the woman because the laceration was clean.
No other signs of struggle were shown on Gladue’s body.
According to the prosecutor’s opening statements, the victim was said to have been a sex worker who had relations with Barton a few days before her death.
The suspect called 911 after the attack, telling the dispatcher “a woman he barely knew was in his tub.”
Barton said nothing about their previous relationship and only admitted to meeting her earlier that night in the hotel bar and then allowing her to use his shower.
http://crimefeed.com/2015/03/vagina-as-evidence/
An unprecedented decision by prosecutors to submit a victim’s preserved tissue as evidence in a recent Edmonton murder trial has drawn criticism for both ethical and legal reasons.
During the first-degree murder trial of Brad Barton, the preserved vagina of victim Cindy Gladue was brought into court for experts to show jurors the details of the 11-centimetre wound that caused her to bleed to death in Barton’s Yellowhead Inn bathtub.
The trial hinged on whether the wound was caused by Barton’s fingers during sex, as he claimed, or a sharp weapon, as the prosecution argued. It was the first time human tissue has been accepted as evidence in a Canadian courtroom.
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/bl...in-cindy-gladue-murder-trial-comes-under-fire