Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, during cross-examination in the afternoon session yesterday, Homans picked at Ward's testimony, suggesting that he had confused his standards for measuring fetal age, and that the estimate of 26 weeks was exaggerated...
Seemingly impatient with the witness, Homans addressed Ward as "sir" or even "mr. witness," while prosecutor Flanagan always addressed him as "doctor...
Measurements of the length and weight of the fetus in the Edelin case were made in an autopsy four months after the operation, but Ward questioned the accuracy of the weight measurement...
Homans cited a list of scientific papers on the effect of preservation in Formalin on tissue weight and, after establishing that Ward was familiar with none of them, suggested that the doctor was not qualified to speculate on the age of the fetus...
...defense attorney implied that Ward had employed standards of measurement in interpreting figures from the autopsy that would yield a contrived and exaggerated estimate of the age of the fetus...