"Deep breaths, April. Deep breaths." April Ballentine nods, steeling herself. As she sits inside the lab of the University of Kentucky's Sports Medicine Research Institute (SMRI), her anticipation stirs up an incredible amount of pure nervousness.
In 2013, April Ballentine’s ex-boyfriend shot her five times in public. Though she survived – barely – the event left her paralyzed from the chest down.
After a domestic violence assault left her paralyzed in 2013, Lexington native April Ballentine channeled her trauma into a force for good, joining the Sheriff's office to become an advocate for other victims of domestic violence. Her dream of walking again seemed impossible until a chance meeting with a UK physical therapist generated an opportunity to trial a ReWalk exoskeleton.
Lawyers warned the Scottish Government was heading for defeat in its court battle with Alex Salmond more than three months before it lost the case.
In a major development which piles more pressure on Nicola Sturgeon, it emerged yesterday that they warned in September 2018 there was a real risk that the court may be persuaded by the petitioner s case in respect of the ground of challenge based on procedural unfairness .
Legal advisers then informed officials on October 31 of a very real problem which eventually led to Mr Salmond winning the case.
Lawyers warned the Scottish Government was heading for defeat in its court battle with Alex Salmond more than three months before it lost the case