Welcome back. It's time for a quick bit clip. The full episode will be linked in the description,

but this is the quick bit clip to keep you in the loop for everything that's happening on the

live stream channel. Let's get into it. Today was the second part of the Dauber evidentiary hearing

regarding Dr. Russell. Dr. Russell testified in the first trial regarding the injuries to victim John O'Keefe's arm,

testifying that they were most likely from dog bites.

Her testimony was fairly limited.

Some of that was due to discovery and the fact that she was discovered as a witness in the middle of trial,

and it didn't give the Commonwealth a lot of time

to find another expert and rebut her testimony, and her testimony at that trial was limited.

The special prosecutor has been brought into this case for the retrial, has brought a motion to

exclude her as a witness and made some good arguments in his final arguments to the court

that there is no scientific process here saying that this is not something that can be repeated,

that this is not something that's widely accepted within the community to recognize dog bites

through pattern recognition. Of course, when the defense made their arguments at the end of the hearing today, what they

said is, well, Your Honor, in other courts, and let me show you the rulings on the other courts,

other medical professionals have been allowed in to give this testimony because they have

treated wounds from dogs and are able to look at a wound and say,

this is a wound that if it came into my ER, in my experience, I look at that wound and go,

that is a dog bite.

We need to treat it like a dog bite.

That wound did not come from a vehicle collision.

And the defense is asking that Dr. Russell be allowed to testify to not only that the wounds

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