Dr. Matthew Stanbrook of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) says the decision [in the recent Ohio case where Taser sued the coroner in order to have the autopsy report changed] doesn't take into account the difficult of determining an exact cause of death in almost every case. "If we were required to have at the level of scientific and medical certainty that something was the cause of death, before we were permitted to declare it, most of the people who died in North America would have died of unknown causes," Stanbrook said. "It is a physician making their best judgment given all the facts available." [
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Especially when one fact that everyone can agree on is that the various tasers would not leave any physical evidence known to science even if they did cause a death. The current is too low to leave any burn tracks. All you'd have is a dead body (hypothetically speaking) with perhaps one or two small - innocent-looking - entry wounds on the chest.
See a previous post "What exactly would you be looking for?" [
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Perhaps the only data that would be available would be a plot of suspicious taser-associated deaths (raw data) versus month. [
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Pssst. The X26 taser was introduced in 2003.
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