{"id":3718,"date":"2013-05-07T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2013-05-07T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:00:18","slug":"checks-and-balances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgansstalking.com\/?p=3718","title":{"rendered":"Checks and Balances…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dontletthebastards\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Starting at the top, the highest law in the land, the American constitutional system includes a notion known as the Separation of Powers.\u00a0 Three Branches of government \u2013 each one having powers to rein in the other, keeping everything in balance.\u00a0 In the stalking case and death of Morgan Ingram what did it take in Garfield County for her right to due process to be stripped away, and her tormentors – the stalker(s), the peeping tom(s), the intruders, and the jewelry thieves to all go free \u2013 sadly for us all, not very much at all.<\/p>\n

A meeting was held behind closed doors, which should always be a tip-off that some right is about to be stripped from someone.\u00a0 Steve and I knew about this meeting only because we knew the legal team that had set it up.\u00a0 They had high hopes that this meeting would bring the start of justice for Morgan.<\/p>\n

It would have been nice if Steve and I had been made aware of the meeting through the promise of the Colorado Constitution to treat Victims with fairness, respect and dignity.\u00a0 But we were not, the premise sounds good, but in Garfield County the notion is to be avoided at all costs, even by the representative of Victims Rights.\u00a0 Trust me I stood and endured her wrath, at an earlier time, as I tried to introduce a medical fact into the investigation.<\/p>\n

As we were not present at the meeting to decide the fate for our daughter and the criminals who attacked her, I do not know exactly what was said.\u00a0 I was given a synopsis of how it ended though.<\/p>\n

As the County Coroner has never spoken with us or granted a meeting I seriously doubt he was even there.\u00a0 Perhaps one of the Deputy Coroners whom I am told are not real Deputy Coroners due to the way they choose to conduct official state business, including following Colorado Revised Statutes for Deputy Coroners, was at the meeting, but I do not know one way or the other. \u00a0I do know that they know how to ignore conflict of interest laws and unabashedly promote the Mortuary they all work for.\u00a0 Checks and Balances?\u00a0 For the President, Congress, The Senate, and the Supreme Court \u2013 definitely.\u00a0 For Coroners in Garfield County \u2013 not so much.<\/p>\n

I am told the FBI was represented, and I do not know if someone was there to protect Morgan’s or our interests.\u00a0 The contracted Forensic Pathologist was there, in person or over the telephone, I am not sure, but his voice to give weighty evidence was there.\u00a0 The contracted Forensic Pathologist has this way of completely disregarding the opinions of others in the medical field, no matter what their credentials.\u00a0 I know this from past events.<\/p>\n

A team of doctors, not one doctor, but a team of doctors at the Mattel Children\u2019s Hospital at UCLA in Los Angeles saw Morgan to evaluate a situation.\u00a0 At the conclusion of their evaluation they were satisfied with their findings.\u00a0 After Morgan\u2019s death one of the doctors on this team shared the findings with the contracted Forensic Pathologist Garfield County had hired for Morgan\u2019s autopsy.\u00a0 This doctor told the pathologist that Morgan did not suffer from Porphyria, which of course created a problem because the pathologist had already listed Porphyria as her cause of death, perhaps he should have asked someone who knew first.<\/p>\n

The pathologist had told Steve and I on the phone once that he did not have much experience with Porphyria, and he would welcome input from a large respected University Hospital out on the coast. \u00a0Out of concern at the time we did ask him if he had seen something during the autopsy or perhaps ran a test on Morgan that led him to conclude Porphyria was Morgan\u2019s cause of death, and he told us he had not and did not.<\/p>\n

Evidently this welcoming of input from a source such as staff from the\u00a0Mattel Children\u2019s Hospital at UCLA in Los Angeles\u00a0was only good until they gave him input which was in conflict with his findings, and it caused a real problem for a case he had already given his professional, \u201cwith a great deal of medical certainty ???\u201d, opinion on.\u00a0 The pathologist none – the – less had a simple solution for his apparent snafu.\u00a0 It was not, change the mistake he had made, if that is what you thought.\u00a0 He instead took the position that he suddenly knew more about Porphyria than they did. \u00a0Most everyone else in the world for that matter. \u00a0Now really, if you were told by your doctor you possibly could have Porphyria – would you:<\/p>\n

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  1. Schedule an appointment with your local Forensic Pathologist, and see if he could see you between autopsies?\u00a0 OR…<\/li>\n
  2. Schedule appointments with a team of doctors at UCLA MEDICAL CENTER, including specialists in this kind of thing to determine what was really wrong with you and what to do about it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It just boggles my mind is that I can write this, and it is absolutely the truth.\u00a0 But this is not the absolute gem that the contracted forensic pathologist said at the closed-door meeting that really crossed the line, really defies credulity.<\/p>\n

    The issue was raised by someone at this closed-door meeting that the “Ingram\u2019s” seemed to believe there could be more to Morgan\u2019s death than just simple natural causes, and it could actually be a homicide instead.\u00a0 That such a question could actually be asked is once again beyond me, when Morgan was in the midst of a horrific felony stalking, at her house, out on the streets, she had lived in fear everywhere for four months and then was found dead, days before she was to be officially interviewed about her stalker.\u00a0 But the contracted forensic pathologist had a whole different opinion about Morgan\u2019s death, and he handled it in quite a surprising way for a professional in a room of professionals.<\/p>\n

    The contracted forensic pathologist is reported to have simply written the whole matter off to, \u201cBad Blood\u201d, between him and the Medical Examiner who had given the second opinion. \u00a0Was he accusing him of lying or misrepresenting facts due to a personal disagreement? \u00a0Beyond shocking! Yet in that room of Law Enforcement, on that day, it was enough. \u00a0Never mind that among the many opinions the Medical Examiner gave in his second opinion was the fact that he did not see how the contracted forensic pathologist could overlook a blood level of amitriptyline of 7,909, in fact calling it insignificant in determining the cause of death.\u00a0 This statement had gotten the Ingram\u2019s all riled up and that was the problem. \u00a0This blame of “Bad Blood” from the Forensic Pathologist is all it took to have the past DA and the Sheriff to decide Morgan’s case did not rise to the need for justice. \u00a0Checks and Balances – Stalker, Murderer, Thief, Intruder, Peeping Tom VS “bad blood” – all even in Garfield County.<\/p>\n

    I have said it many times now, but I will say it again.\u00a0 It is the professional opinions of doctors, forensic experts, investigative specialists that I base my opinion as to what happened to Morgan on. \u00a0I am only restating what I am told, not voicing my own, nor Steve\u2019s opinions, and certainly not stooping to blame “Bad Blood”.\u00a0 We are not doctors, forensic experts, or investigative specialists.<\/p>\n

    Is that really all it took to end Morgan\u2019s right to due process?\u00a0 Bad Blood?\u00a0 Are professionals not able to talk and work out glaring differences?\u00a0 If the lab that tested Morgan\u2019s blood regularly tests blood samples from all over the county every day and says 7,909 is the highest level they have ever seen – how does it get swept away due to bad blood? \u00a0A level of 7,909 being the highest they remember is a fact, that could very justifiably get the parents of a daughter they had been told died from natural causes all whipped up!<\/p>\n

    Are we all honestly so busy bickering here in Colorado that nobody can get justice?\u00a0 Or does this “bad blood” defense only work in closed-door meetings in Garfield County?<\/p>\n

    That brings me back to a basic premise that binds the county \u2013 Checks and Balances.\u00a0 The United States has them, but Garfield County finds it easier to conduct business without them, no worries if justice gets lost in the process.<\/p>\n

    Morgan only wanted to help people, and she did.\u00a0 She also did not want to go, not at the age she was taken, and certainly not in the way she has been taken from us \u2013 of this I am absolutely certain.<\/p>\n

    “Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. \u00a0It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists…it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status.”<\/em> \u00a0– U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, Jr<\/p>\n

    Equal justice should stand for all – victims included, and why am I not seeing this day after day, email after email, call after call from other victims? \u00a0We are all citizens, and should be able to receive equal justice, but we are far from it in this case, and things need to be rectified!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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