OK, Back To Kentucky Where The Prosecution In The Max Gilpin Case, Against PRP Football Coach, Jason Stinson, Is About To Lose The Case. Read More.
From excerpts in today's story, we get this DAMAGING set of facts for the prosecution:
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Earlier in the day, Lois Gilpin, Max’s stepmother at the time of his death, told jurors that the teen was sick on the day he collapsed and should not have gone to school.
Lois Gilpin, who has been separated from Max’s father since November, testified that Max wasn’t feeling well on Aug. 19, 2008, and went to bed early without eating dinner. The next morning Max felt hot said he had a headache and was ill before he went to school, Lois Gilpin.
Max’s father, Jeff, told the teen he needed to go to school, she said.
Her “biggest regret is that I didn’t fight Jeff” and allow Max to stay home that day, she told jurors.
“I wish he had stayed home, but did what his dad said,” Lois Gilpin told jurors. “…The truth is, he was sick.”
Under cross-examination by prosecutors, Lois Gilpin acknowledged that she has refused to talk to prosecutors about the case, has supported Stinson’s defense fund and attends church with Stinson.
“I didn’t feel like I had to speak to you,” Gilpin told Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Leland Hulbert.
She also said that Max’s mother and stepfather talked about filing a civil lawsuit against PRP’s football coaches while Max was in the hospital. She denied prompting Jeff to get involved in the suit.
On the first day of defense testimony Tuesday, former state medical examiner Dr. George Nichols testified that Max’s death from heat stroke was an accident and “should not have been foreseeable.”
Nichols and Dr. Daniel Danzl, chairman of the University of Louisville department of emergency medicine, both testified that heat strokes aren’t often preventable, require hospitalization and often end in death.
Both also said Max was not dehydrated and that excessive running did not contribute to his heat stroke. They said more likely causes were taking Adderall, an amphetamine used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Max’s use of creatine, a supplement intended to build muscle mass, as well as a possible viral illness the teen suffered the day of practice.
Reporter Jason Riley can be reached at (502) 582-4727.
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Earlier in the day, Lois Gilpin, Max’s stepmother at the time of his death, told jurors that the teen was sick on the day he collapsed and should not have gone to school.
Lois Gilpin, who has been separated from Max’s father since November, testified that Max wasn’t feeling well on Aug. 19, 2008, and went to bed early without eating dinner. The next morning Max felt hot said he had a headache and was ill before he went to school, Lois Gilpin.
Max’s father, Jeff, told the teen he needed to go to school, she said.
Her “biggest regret is that I didn’t fight Jeff” and allow Max to stay home that day, she told jurors.
“I wish he had stayed home, but did what his dad said,” Lois Gilpin told jurors. “…The truth is, he was sick.”
Under cross-examination by prosecutors, Lois Gilpin acknowledged that she has refused to talk to prosecutors about the case, has supported Stinson’s defense fund and attends church with Stinson.
“I didn’t feel like I had to speak to you,” Gilpin told Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Leland Hulbert.
She also said that Max’s mother and stepfather talked about filing a civil lawsuit against PRP’s football coaches while Max was in the hospital. She denied prompting Jeff to get involved in the suit.
On the first day of defense testimony Tuesday, former state medical examiner Dr. George Nichols testified that Max’s death from heat stroke was an accident and “should not have been foreseeable.”
Nichols and Dr. Daniel Danzl, chairman of the University of Louisville department of emergency medicine, both testified that heat strokes aren’t often preventable, require hospitalization and often end in death.
Both also said Max was not dehydrated and that excessive running did not contribute to his heat stroke. They said more likely causes were taking Adderall, an amphetamine used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Max’s use of creatine, a supplement intended to build muscle mass, as well as a possible viral illness the teen suffered the day of practice.
Reporter Jason Riley can be reached at (502) 582-4727.
Labels: Crime, High school sports, Punishment
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