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... Chauvin trial in the video player above. Dr. David Fowler, a former Maryland chief medical examiner who is now with a consulting firm, said the fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd's system, and possibly carbon monoxide poisoning from auto exhaust, were contributing factors in the 46-year-old Black man ...
Chauvin attorney Eric Nelson has argued that the 19-year Minneapolis police veteran did what he was trained to do and and that Floyd died because of his illegal drug use and underlying health problems, including high blood pressure and heart disease. Fentanyl and methamphetamine were discovered in his system ...
... fentanyl and methamphetamine in Floyd's system. Baker testified that neither Floyd’s heart problems nor drugs caused his death: “Mr. Floyd’s use of fentanyl did not cause the subdual or neck restraint. His heart disease did not cause the subdual or the neck restraint.” Under cross-examination, though ...
... that argument today. Dr. Daniel Isenschmid, a forensic toxicologist with a private company that analyzed Floyd's autopsy, testified that the levels of methamphetamine and fentanyl in Floyd's system were not a factor in his death. That finding was supported by both Tobin earlier and the day's final ...
... blood drawn from Floyd at the hospital, as well as urine from his autopsy, and found a “very low” amount of methamphetamine. Daniel Isenschmid said fentanyl and a byproduct of its breakdown also were in Floyd's system. Isenschmid put the level of fentanyl in Floyd's blood at 11 ...
Stephanie Sy: On Wednesdays, Sabrina Brandt volunteers at the Portland people's outreach project, a harm reduction organization that provides clean syringes, naloxone to reverse overdoses, and strips to test for the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl, which increases the risk of overdosing. Sabrina Brandt: The more people that have it ...
Nelson, Chauvin's attorney, asked Langenfeld whether some drugs can cause hypoxia, or insufficient oxygen. The doctor acknowledged that fentanyl and methamphetamine, both of which were found in Floyd's body, can do so. The county medical examiner's office ultimately classified Floyd's death a homicide — that is, a ...
... death was caused not by the knee on his neck — as prosecutors contend — but by drugs, his underlying health conditions and adrenaline. An autopsy found fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. Chauvin is also heard on body-camera footage defending his decision to an onlooker after Floyd was taken away ...
An autopsy revealed Floyd had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system when he died. Ross told jurors she took Floyd to the hospital in March 2020, just two months before his death, for what she later learned was an overdose. Shortly after Ross' testimony, lawyers for Floyd's family released ...
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