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Newport Daily News
NEWPORT The defense attorney demonstrated a stabbing motion for the court as he cross-examined the state assistant medical examiner.
Joseph Voccola brought his fist, clutching an imaginary knife, under his throat. He wanted to make clear the stab wound in the decedent’s neck was, in state assistant medical examiner Ariel Goldschimdt’s opinion, consistent with a downward motion, not an upward motion.
In Superior Court on Wednesday, Goldschmidt testified his assessment of the stab wound in 22-year-old Maximus Julian’s neck “appeared to be downward, forward and leftward.” Of the three stab wounds Julian suffered after a fight at a short-term rental property on Thames Street over Memorial Day weekend, the stab wound in his neck was, in Goldschmidt’s opinion, the most severe.
Newport detective describes the scene
Clark, currently assigned as a Bureau of Criminal Identification detective, is one of two primary crime scene investigators for the Newport Police Department.
Shortly after midnight on May 30, Clark testified he was on patrol and dispatched to the Shell gas station on Thames Street for a man reportedly bleeding. He located Julian on the corner of Lee Avenue and Thames Street, in a large pool of blood, near approximately 10 people.
One person had removed his shirt in an effort to stop the bleeding. Clark testified he located one stab wound “to the right side of his neck, behind his ear, that was bleeding heavily.” He applied pressure to the wound until a rescue wagon arrived.