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Index
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Prologue
Chapter 1 Who is Charlene?
Chapter 2 Charlene’s final illness
24 Hour Surgery in Bealey Avenue
The Emergency Department
Chapter 3 A change of diagnosis
In intensive care
Chapter 4 The family’s life changes forever
Initial police investigations
The autopsy
The investigation continues
Child, Youth and Family involvement
Charlene is buried and the family returns home
Sperm on the underpants
Chapter 5 After the arrest
Investigations continue
Depositions
Chapter 6 Enter expert witnesses for the defence
My role as medical adviser for the case
Assessing the forensic science
A dearth of expert witnesses in New Zealand
Chapter 7 The first trial
The case for the prosecution
Evidence by hearsay
The case for the defence
Chapter 8 Short-lived freedom
Post-trial report commissioned by the Crown
Family Court hearing
Hearing in the Court of Appeal
On to the Supreme Court
Chapter 9 The waiting days
Four years in limbo
Earthquakes
Chapter 10 Further forensic testing
Explaining the forensic science
Results of the DNA tests
Petroleum jelly
Chapter 11 Expert medical witnesses for the second trial
Professor Sebastian Lucas, world expert in HIV histopathology
Professor Michael Sharland, expert in infectious diseases in children
Dr Simon Nadel, children’s intensive care consultant
Dr Nathaniel Cary, Home Office forensic pathologist
Dr David Hammer, microbiologist
Chapter 12 Double jeopardy in action
The retrial
Witnesses called by the Crown
Medical expert witnesses called by the Crown
Forensic scientist witnesses called by the Crown
Further Crown evidence from police
Case for the defence
The verdict
Chapter 13 Legal ramifications
The influence of medical opinion on the investigation
Medical expert witnesses for the prosecution
Timing of the briefs provided by the Crown expert witnesses
Difficulty obtaining expert witnesses for the defence
Reliance on DNA evidence
The challenge of double jeopardy
Majority verdicts
Publication of the case in the scientific literature
Chapter 14 Good versus bad science
Good science tests hypotheses
With the best of intentions
Evidence gathering by the ESR
Reporting and interpretation of the clinical findings
Autopsy focused on sexual trauma and suffocation
When does good science turn bad?
Chapter 15 Conclusion
Shared idée fixe
Hickam’s Dictum not Occam’s Razor
Did racism play a role?
What did it all cost?
Aftermath
Notes
Index
Back Cover
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