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...prosecution's top witness, Dr. Enrique Giminez-Jimeno, testified at the first trial that the fetus died within the womb while Edelin kept his hand in the uterus through an abdominal incision...
McGuire said at the first trial that the victim of manslaughter had to be "alive outside the body of his or her mother." His statement suggested that if the jury believed the testimony of Giminez-Jimeno, it would have to acquit Edelin...
...defense challenged the testimony of the chief prosecution witness, Dr. Enrique Giminez, who said that Edelin, in performing the abortion, held his fingers inside the uterus for three minutes in order to assure the death of the fetus...
Homans argued that Giminez's testimony "established at most circumstantial evidence since he couldn't see what Edelin's fingers were doing...
Flanagan's definition of birth was ruled out by Judge McGuire, and the testimony of his only eye witness was discredited by the defense. But, for jurors who believed the evidence of their eyes, that a baby had lived and been killed, Giminez-Jimeno's testimony was irrefutable in its essence. The defense could not deny that Edelin had deliberately caused the death of what the jurors saw in that photograph. And it may be that the defense never succeeded in removing from their minds that first, vivid picture of Edelin as a ruthless, cold-blooded abortionist, standing motionless over...