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Jefferson County prosecutors want a school district report on the death of Pleasure Ridge Park football player Max Gilpin excluded from ex-coach Jason Stinson's trial because it selectively used information to reach a "self-serving and wholly inaccurate conclusion."
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Arguing that the Jefferson County Public Schools investigation is "factually and logically unsound," the Commonwealth's Attorney's office is asking a circuit judge to keep the report out of Stinson's Aug. 31 trial.

Superintendent Sheldon Berman released the report earlier this month, concluding that neither then-head coach Stinson nor his assistants violated state rules or district policy at the Aug. 20 practice where Max collapsed from heat exhaustion. Max died three days later.

Stinson has pleaded not guilty to reckless homicide in Max's death.

In a motion filed in Jefferson Circuit Court, prosecutors wrote that the school district "omitted relevant information that it believed was damaging to its position" and included information in its findings that is not included in statements witnesses made to police or the district.

Judge Susan Schultz Gibson set an Aug. 14 hearing date to hear arguments.

Superintendent Sheldon Berman said Monday that the district conducted "a very thorough investigation" and "we stand behind the findings."

Berman said "certain witnesses say different things to different people" and noted that some of the statements collected by the district were lengthier than those given to police.

The district's 271-page report says players got four to five scheduled water breaks, and the practice was "normal" until Max collapsed.

Berman has said the district's investigation, which included interviews with 125 witnesses, "clearly indicated that Max Gilpin did not die as a result of any restriction in water breaks or denial of water."

But Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Jon Heck claims that the school district's findings differ from those of the Louisville Metro Police Department — most witnesses gave statements to both police and JCPS investigators — and he provided three "of several" examples.

Editor's comment: read JCPS' "self serving" report.