I tried a Google search—I get a few mentions of Mignini firing his coroner, but they either don’t mention a reason or they say it was punishment for leaks to the press. None seem to be from impartial sources, i.e. one is from that truejustice site, another is an article in the Stranger (seattle weekly) by a friend of Amanda’s …the closest thing to a real news site was a Vanity Fair article, and like the others it doesn’t mention the first coroner saying there was one assailant.
This is the problem I mentioned in another comment—all of our info is second- or third-hand. I’m surprised at how comfortable people are citing this stuff. If this was a comparably public case in the US, there’s a good chance the entire reports from both the old and new coroner would be on the Smoking Gun and we could be linking to them directly...
One thing to remember is that Mignini fired the coroner doing autopsy investigation when that person said it was the injuries of a single perpetrator. He then hired someone who said it was more than one perpetrator. If you would like, I can find a link to back it up. So the original report said one person caused the injuries.
Again, can you give us your source for this? I’m not doubting you, I just want to get an idea of where it comes from.
The following is from a recap of the defense’s arguments on closing day. The recap was written by Kelly Brodbeck who was summarizing Ghirga’s arguments. I think he got the rundown from a person present at the trial. This is the first thing I can cite. Will continue to look for more.
“He talked about how Mignini stated that the position and condition of Meredith showed that there was more than one person involved in the murder, but when the coroner Dr. Lali said that the body did not show that more than one person was involved, Mignini fired him and replaced him with someone who agreed with his assertions. He said “I wonder why he was really fired??” ”
I tried a Google search—I get a few mentions of Mignini firing his coroner, but they either don’t mention a reason or they say it was punishment for leaks to the press. None seem to be from impartial sources, i.e. one is from that truejustice site, another is an article in the Stranger (seattle weekly) by a friend of Amanda’s …the closest thing to a real news site was a Vanity Fair article, and like the others it doesn’t mention the first coroner saying there was one assailant.
This is the problem I mentioned in another comment—all of our info is second- or third-hand. I’m surprised at how comfortable people are citing this stuff. If this was a comparably public case in the US, there’s a good chance the entire reports from both the old and new coroner would be on the Smoking Gun and we could be linking to them directly...
It was part of the trial, however, which is why people cite it.
Again, can you give us your source for this? I’m not doubting you, I just want to get an idea of where it comes from.
The following is from a recap of the defense’s arguments on closing day. The recap was written by Kelly Brodbeck who was summarizing Ghirga’s arguments. I think he got the rundown from a person present at the trial. This is the first thing I can cite. Will continue to look for more.
“He talked about how Mignini stated that the position and condition of Meredith showed that there was more than one person involved in the murder, but when the coroner Dr. Lali said that the body did not show that more than one person was involved, Mignini fired him and replaced him with someone who agreed with his assertions. He said “I wonder why he was really fired??” ”
The lack of DNA evidence of a additional perpetrators corroborates the single suspect coroner’s result.
No problem… I think even Mignini doesn’t dispute it. But I’ll seek it out.