Rossum v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “not sure” that such levels could be achieved because he had never placed that many patches on a patient. 8 . Robertson appears to have had a special interest and expertise in fentanyl. Russ Lowe testified that he discovered approximately thirty-seven articles on fentanyl while cleaning out Robertson’s office after his departure from the OME. If Robertson’s interest in fentanyl was widely known, then contaminating de Villers’s samples with fentanyl might have seemed like an effective way of implicating Robertson in de Villers’s death. 9 . Respondent argued at the District Court that”

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   e.g. Rossum v. Patrick

2. “Do you have any way of knowing or testing to determine if any [of de Villers’s] samples ... has been tampered with or spiked by anybody?” Henson answered,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rossum v. Patrick

3. “Q. So it is your testimony, then, that Greg de Villers voluntarily took fentanyl, clonazepam, and oxycodone, correct? A. As far as his death, yes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rossum v. Patrick