Washington County Criminal Court Judge Stacy Street reversed a ruling he previously made that would have prevented prosecutors from substituting the pathologist in a murder case.
Street ruled earlier this month that Aaron Storyâs constitutional rights to confront his accuser would be violated if he allowed the substitution.
Story, 34, was indicted Sept. 11 in the June 2, 2018, shooting death of Christopher Connelly, whose body was discovered by a woman intending to walk her dogat the Lone Oak trailhead that Saturday morning.
The issue came up because Dr. Matrina Schmidt, who worked as a forensic pathologist at ETSU, performed the autopsy and prepared the report in the death of 38-year-old Connelly.
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