Knights
in Dirty
Armour
"Two
Innocent
Victims "
Judge Dynda Post would first
warn: “Any testimony
they (John & Gilda) present that the bruises or injury to
the murder victim*, Benjamin Schoonover, were
not consistent with a pattern of child abuse …(Ramsey) would introduce
evidence to the contrary.”
“That’s exactly
what I intend to do,” Ramsey broadcast.
*(The
“honorable” but
obviously bigoted Judge Dynda Post
had decided to condemn Marie
before the trial even began.
Precluding
any possibility of a fair
trial.)
Dr Krouse
would testify for John and Marie. He would testify that he
thoroughly examined the records of the Mayes County Medical Center
and St Francis Hospital.
That the
records show that Ben would have lost consciousness immediately
following the trauma he received. This would put the accident
in the time frame after 6:30 pm, when Nora Stanart testified she
talked with Ben, and 7:00 pm, when Dr DeLong admitted Ben at Mayes
County Medical Center.
That the
records show there were no bruises or marks or any sign
of injury
to Ben upon his
examination at Mayes County Medical Center. Nothing to indicate any kind of
child abuse.
They show that Ben’s eyes were symmetrical upon arrival,
which further confirmed that the accident had occurred with
minutes.
That the
records of the St Francis Radiologist’s report with the MRI revealed
the finding of a single 12mm hairline fracture of Ben’s
occipital. This is
consistent with a backward, rotational fall from a standing position
on a piano bench, impacting an irregular cement
surface.
Dr. Krouse would conclude his
testimony to the jury:
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“The finding of a single, fairly profound, or obviously
lethal head injury, and
the
discovery of the unresponsive and unconscious child on a very hard
and
unyielding
surface, particularly if there is an elevated area nearby from which
he might
have fallen, brings into play the possibility that it was an
accident, that it was
a fall and that it was a single impact that caused this fatal
injury.
A more yielding surface, like a wooden floor with a yielding
sub floor under it
or a felt
padding, would be less likely to cause this serious of an injury
than an unyielding concrete rock-like surface.
The significance of the location of the piano bench is that
it’s fairly close to
that hard
floor, and it provides a potential launching pad for a serious or
fatal
head
injury.”
Suggesting
a bribe, Ramsey insulted Dr. Krouse by making it quite clear to the
jury that the Schoonover’s had to pay Dr. Krouse $5,000 to come all
the way from Texas for this
testimony.
Dr. Krouse
corrected Ramsey; his fee was $2,500, which would barely cover
expenses, his contract was with Mary Porch, not the Schoonover’s,
and it was for his expert opinion --- whatever it may be --- and
not for this
testimony.
One
additional witness would have been called had the Court not violated
Oklahoma Constitution Article II23. Marie (and John) was
confirmed indigent and unable even to pay Dr. Krouse’s
transportation.
All of the
physicians boiled it down to physics. None professed proficiency
in the knowledge of the mechanics of the subject. With the exception of Dr.
Krouse, their opinions were based upon inadequate and erroneous
information and the subject they were lacking in, physics. The medical findings did not
show Ben’s injury to be inflicted.
Dr. Krouse
does have knowledge of physics, but because he is a medical doctor
and not a physicist, his testimony was restricted by Ramsey to his
“medical opinion only”.
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Thus,
without a physicist, we could not show clearly that Ben’s fall from
a piano bench did, in fact, equate to a 30 MPH automobile
collision.
To
demonstrate this phenomenon, consider the fall of a toddler (Ben)
falling a distance of 0.91 meters (3 feet), which is slightly less
than our Ben did, in fact, fall (straight line vertical distance
from head to floor is approximately 51”). This straight fall produces
an impact velocity of 4.24 meters/second (13.9 fps), which is 9.48
MPH. A rotational fall will almost
double this velocity to 18.96 MPH, and when the shoulders impact
first, the initial loading of whiplash can cause head
acceleration of more than twice that acceleration,
which is up to 37.92 MPH impact velocity --- on
cement.24
This
author has no education in physics, but with rudimentary math, can
glean from
the
many articles available, as anyone can, with the knowledge that
Ben’s fall was an accident, the complicated physics formulas confirm that it was an
accident. The Court
denied Marie the right to have an expert physicist as a defense
witness by withholding available funds for the cost of this
much-needed
expert
witness.
Kevin
Adams (John’s attorney) advised John that he could not even petition
the Court for the witness, as it was not necessary for him. Adam’s defense for John
rested on the fact that multiple witnesses, including our Ben
himself, had put John away from the scene of the accident, as Ben
had told Nora (over the phone) that, “He’s outside watering the
flowers”.
John was
assured that Marie’s attorney (James Rowan) would succeed in his
closing argument.
Kevin
Adams did show that John was not present, and could not be convicted
of murder. He was
interrupted numerous times with sustained objections, but still he
did succeed.
The jury
would and did render a verdict of “Not Guilty” to the charge of
murder that John was tried for.
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Jim Rowan
began his closing of how Ben fell from a piano bench … interrupted
with an objection.
Judge Post told Rowan:
“The
State presented no testimony about any
furniture
in that house and you
cannot introduce any furniture now.
Sustained.
Rowan:
“Judge, it is tantamount that I be allowed to show this
Jury how Ben was injured…” another interruption by Post
Post:
“Did you hear me, Mr. Rowan? I sustained the
objection. Move
On.”
Rowan:
“Judge, I move for a mistrial, thank
you.”
Post:
“You what?”
Rowan:
“I move for a mistrial.
You are not allowing me to present a .
defense25 and this is an unfair
trial.”
Post:
“Do you have any authority to support your
motion?”
Rowan:
“Not at the present, your Honor.”
Post:
“Motion denied.
Move on.”
Jim Rowan
did the best he could with what he was allowed by the Court, and it
was still a pretty good closing argument.
Ramsey
would then present his argument. He made a grossly
inappropriate statement to which our attorneys objected. Judge Post called a bench
conference and explained that these constant interruptions were
going to stop. She
would be ‘giving’ the defendants a ‘running objection’ to Ramsey’s
oratory, which included “Repeated and escalating
misconduct(26)” of misquoting witnesses, misstating
evidence, and even contradicting himself in stating “We don’t know
why he left the hospital”, “Dr Barton interviewed them several
times”, and the invention of a 45 minute “time delay” between 6:33
pm and 6:45 pm, creating the illusion of truth with his sobbing and
lamenting, with gesticulating hands describing a volcano, “Ben’s
brains were gushing out the top of his head for forty five long
minutes before John decided to call the hospital
…
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“This family, these
people, who compare their child to psychopathic serial killers
are not normal people, and abnormal people do abnormal things …
“
How many
of the tired jury would forget that Ben had no sign of
injury, and that John, and only John said, “Well, Jeffrey Dahmer
was probably a sweet little baby”? and is that non-judgmental
attitude wrong, that all babies are equally
lovable?
“While a prosecutor is clearly
authorized to strike hard
blows
he or she
is not allowed to strike foul
ones.”27
The
defense is not allowed to rebut these misconducts. Such
misconducts will go unchecked for so long as there is apathy.
***
“It was
not my responsibility to determine whether they were
guilty Or innocent.
My duty was to put them to death.
I was only following orders.”
Karl Adolph
Eichman. Israel,
1962
An
excuse our Knights do not
have.
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