
Originally Posted by
aaronsmommy
mT, just to clarify, the defense asked the ME about those miracle brain injuries we sometimes hear about, and asked him if this could have been like that. He denied that possibility saying that the injuries you hear about are spikes or arrows, but gun shot sounds release gases that expands in the brain. Since it is already such a delicate thing, that if the foreign object didn't trigger the brain to shut down, the external gases certainly would have. He was immediately incapacitated, according to the ME there is no question about it.