Sheila's skin had not discoloured sufficiently enough, at the time PC Bird photographed her body, for her to have already been dead for seven hours? The discoloration of her skin, by 10 am suggests in the clearest possible terms, that her death occurred only some two hours prior to the occasion when PC Bird took the crucial picture, which is consistent with Sheila still being very much alive inside whf, until after 8.10am...
Where did you get your degree in pathology?
Hartley
It's just elementary stuff. There is the presence of something which shouldn't be there-fresh blood and the absence of things which should not be there-rigor mortis and lividity. The two professors have the qualifications you require. Its opposing their opinion which is amateurish. Incidently, the CCRC did not give any scientific reason for rejecting that photographic evidence but only fell back on a technicality. I suppose you could say "Well alright the conviction may be wrong from a scientific point of view, but that's entirely irrelevant."
No not true at all, there have been a great number of different professionals and experts who have offered their opinion, from pathologists, surgeons, world renowned blood experts employed by JB's defence team, ballistics experts and many many others. Not a single one has come to the same conclusion that Mike has suggested.
So with all due respect, I, like the courts would take this host of professional expert opinions over that of one of JB's supporters who is relying solely on a photograph of a photograph to make his point.
In addition to which, the reliance on the images which show Sheila's arm in different positions, does not indicate the lack of rigor mortis in her body, when rigor mortis sets in, a human body will not freeze and turn to stone instantly, it will become stiff over time, starting with the face muscles and then spreading to other joints, in fact the maximum stiffness is reached at 12-24 hours post mortem. So the fact that Sheila's arm could be moved a mere 8 or 9 hours after her death is not in any way unusual.
On another note, you may perhaps suggest that liver mortis does not appear present in the photograph of a photograph, but again that is not true. Two characteristics of liver mortis is that the upper surfaces of the body become lighter (as the photograph and witness statements indicate), and the lower surfaces become discoloured as gravity takes effect on the bodily fluids. The photograph of a photograph does not show this discolouration, but it does not show any part of Sheila's body which would be affected, so it is certainly not evidence of the lack of liver mortis, in fact the paleness signs are present and correct.
