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Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

S6 Ep12: Dr. Pinerri's Testimony

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.57.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Bob begins his examination of the trial transcripts with Medical Examiner, Kathryn Pinerri. In this episode we finally hear what the jury heard at Sandra Melgar's trial. Pinerri's report is twisted into a narrative that helps shape the jury's verdict.

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0:00.0

Previously on Truth and Justice.

0:03.0

If Dr. Penares is correct here, the state has a big problem.

0:08.9

Or more to the point, I have a big problem with the state's theory.

0:13.6

Several of the wounds were made with a smooth edge, non-serrated knife.

0:17.7

Most in fact, but not all of them.

0:20.6

Some were made with what appears to be a serrated knife.

0:24.4

So what's the theory here?

0:26.6

Sandy came to gym with two knives, one in each hand, and then one.

0:30.6

Put one of them in the bathtub and disappears the other one.

0:36.3

What the report is saying here is that some of the wounds were made with a knife with a defect on the blade,

0:42.1

like a chip or a bent section.

0:44.7

The problem is the knife in the bathtub had no such defect.

0:56.6

Do not.

0:58.6

Do not.

1:00.6

Do not.

1:16.6

Well, I've just one more question before I call Intermino Mellian, Herman Rodriguez.

1:22.6

If you gave an order that Santiago wasn't to be touched, and your orders are always followed,

1:29.6

then why would Santiago be in danger?

1:34.6

Why would it be necessary to transfer him off the base?

1:41.6

Santiago was a substandard Marine.

1:44.6

He was being transferred.

1:46.6

Not what you said.

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