I made a bold statement in the first episode, and pretty much every episode after that.

Richard Nicholas did not get a fair trial.

Well, this episode is where the rubber meets the road.

This is the one where you find out why I hold on so tightly to that belief,

and why I started this podcast.

I'm Brooke, and this is episode 7 of Convicted.

I've gotten a lot of questions this week. It felt like all the listeners simultaneously

realized. Richard said they had popcorn at the movie. Couldn't they tell that at the autopsy?

And you know, they probably could tell something like that, but the jury didn't hear it.

Hundreds of listeners thought to ask, but unfortunately, three top attorneys didn't.

Let's talk about the medical examiner, Dr. Dennis Schute.

He worked at the office of the chief medical examiner

of the time of Asia's murder.

According to his testimony, his job was to perform autopsies, investigate the cause of death and

manner of death in medical legal cases that got referred to his office.

He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and then Harmon Medical School in Philadelphia.

He was a board certified forensic pathologist and also board certified in anatomic pathology.

In his time as a medical examiner, he guessed he'd completed over a thousand autopsies.

His resume qualified him as an expert to testify in this case.

I shared the gist of his testimony last time, but today we're going to focus on the autopsy.

More specifically, Lividity and stomach contents.

Lividity is when a person's blood settles when they die because of gravity. If a person's on their side, it would settle on their

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