The forensic pathologist called Wednesday as an expert for the defense in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is a former Maryland medical examiner linked to controversy surrounding death in police custody on the Eastern Shore.
Chauvin is facing second- and third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter charges after he restrained Floyd by holding his knee on the 46-year-old s neck for more than nine minutes May 25, 2020.
Fowler told jurors that because of his underlying heart disease, Floyd suffered a sudden cardiac arrhythmia while being restrained and subdued by police, and that other significant contributors included Floyd s ingestion of fentanyl and methamphetamine, as well as carbon monoxide poisoning from exposure to nearby vehicle exhaust.
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Divorce, pandemic-style is becoming more as the virus crisis drags on and many couples find themselves spending a little too much time in close quarters.
The number of divorce cases has jumped by about 30% during the pandemic for veteran divorce lawyer Russell Alexander, who founded Russell Alexander Collaborative Family Lawyers.
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Alexander just hired five more lawyers for his newest office location in Concord, Ont., to deal with the spike in divorce rates, and has updated the firm’s book,
The boom had started well before that. After the Hobbiton Movie Set was rebuilt in 2009 on the Alexander family farm, the business went from 17 staff and between 13,000 to 25,000 visitors each year to almost 300 staff, around 3000 visitors each day in summer and an average of 60 tours per day. From there the car park remained full and the rolling hills of Hinuera were often dotted with earth-green tour buses as camera-toting tourists weaved in and out Middle-earth. Now, a minimum of five tours and 200 visitors on average experience The Shire each day. Where once tourists filed through like an orc army on the march, there’s now more than enough room to swing a dwarf.
She may be almost 100 but Alexander can remember details from her childhood as clearly as day. Pixabay
Normally, I would have sat across from Cleo Alexander in her living room. I would have gone to the Brunswick Boulevard flat where she has lived for almost 70 years to savor tales about a monumental life, how the granddaughter of a man born into slavery became the mother and grandmother of graduates from some of the most prestigious universities in the nation, a perspective Alexander brings into a new year that will include her 100th birthday.
The pandemic continues. We did the interview by Zoom.