Taser International's appeal to quash some aspects of the Braidwood Inquiry specifically mentioned several individuals by name.
Dr. Charles Swerdlow has already been quoted as saying that he felt that he already had a good hearing, and he has distanced himself from the claims of 'unfairness' made by Taser International.
If you need a visual image, Taser International has just been shot in the knee cap by someone they thought would help their appeal.
Dr. (apparently not an MD) Dorin Panescu has been the subject of several previous posts.
His presentation [LINK] came close to setting a new Guinness World Record for oversimplification. And it also appeared to demonstrate that tasers do not actually have any effect except on the muscles between the darts. [LINK]
Even with this utterly crude computer model, he still concluded that the margin for cardiac "capture" (an 'effect' if there ever was one) was only 1.7 to one. Another knee cap shot to hell.
And he mentioned in passing that the older M26 provided HIGHER (safer) margins. This a monsterous 'I Told You So' for this feisty blogger since this conclusion is counter-intuative given the lower peak current of the X26.
Another interesting incident is described here [LINK]. No firm conclusions can be drawn, but it sure was a weird series of blog hits and some peculiar coincidences with where (geographically) they were apparently coming from.
Dr. Bozeman has been quoted pointing out that tasers leave little postmortem evidence. [LINK] That message was explicitly noted by Judge Braidwood.
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