prosecutor wants help

[Charliegoodfellow]

Maybe, if she held it to her chest and fell on it. Seems like a bit much though. Although I am no expert.

 

[TorzJohnson]

(The Coroner in Columbiana County once opined that a girl was fatally electrocuted by telephone current - 48 volt/.007amp/dc.

Yes, but ring voltage is AC and can definitely leave you at room temperature. I guess if she had the mod end in her mouth when the ring voltage was sent it could happen... Otherwise, not likely.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Yes, but ring voltage is AC and can definitely leave you at room temperature. I guess if she had the mod end in her mouth when the ring voltage was sent it could happen... Otherwise, not likely.

This is way OT, but:


Leaving the issue of low amp/68 volt/ac superimposed over the dc (not pleasant but not remotely fatal), there was no AC in this case. The phone was not ringing or in use.

(She was actually found under the family trailor where there was an exposed, live 220 line. Poor thing crawled under to try to fetch her kitty. In the suit, the parents lied about where they found her. Unfortunately for their purposes, mom had told the truth to the EMT's. Nice to not only blow up their theory [touched uncovered <?> protector block] but also show what actually happened.)

 

[Ren the devils trailboss]

Hey, not so fast. Maybe we can collectively work a deal to appear as expert witnesses. We could get our expenses covered, plus a per diem. goodbye..

Yeah...I want to go to Ohio.....Phuck that... :barf:

 

[Eric_425]

I am a prosecutor in Ohio, I have had afew knife cases over the years. I now have a horrible one where an 11 year old girl ends up with a4.8 inch Fisker single blade in the middle of her chest, sharp edge towards the chest. Tjhe coronor says its a single entrance wound, but twice as wide as blade with 5 seperate wound tracks some in different directions with two almost out the little girl's back. Her foster father says girl was thretening family and herself. I am afraid of a suicide defense. Can an 11 year old have the strenght to do this?

Even if it's real, why ask us? The main question is if an 11 yr old could have the strength to do this... which has very little to do with knives. We're not experts on the strengths of 11 yr olds.

The only possible knife aspect of the question is the force it would take to push that particular knife through, which is going to depend on the geometry. Again, asking the wrong people. Ask a physicist to take the knife and get some quantitive numbers.

Even if someone could, it wouldn't hold much credit to say some guy on the internet with a big post count agrees.
The only semi-logical reason for asking here is to test out his argument. But even then, we don't hear the defendants side, and most are hesitant to make any judgement. Plus, we're knife enthusiasts. If we knew anything particular about knives that would tilt our opinion one way or the other, it wouldn't really work as a representative of typical jury opinions. If he wanted opinions from a random sampling of the public, why not find one?