Ben Carson the Neuorosurgeon as Expert Witness

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Steve Eder and Pam Belluck, Long Before He Was Candidate, Carson the Surgeon was an Expert Witness. New York Times, Nov 3, 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/0 ... expert-witness.html

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Testifying as an expert for defendant EMT in 2000:

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Testifying as an expert for EMT, "During two hours on the stand, Dr [Benjamin S] Carson held the jury in thrall

"The episode involving Mr [Horace] Muhammad, a stocky 48-year-old truck driver, began when he showed up near dawn on March 18, 1997, at his fiancée’s two-story rowhouse in a west Baltimore neighborhood. She called the police and asked them to make him leave, which he grudgingly did.  But when he did not move far enough from the house, an officer, who said Mr Muhammad had made threats, tackled him. Mr Muhammad never got back up [because he was paralyzed from the waist down].  Dr Carson was not a witness for the police, and in his testimony he said Mr [Horace] Muhammad’s injuries had most likely resulted from being 'forcibly taken down' by a police officer, who, like Mr Muhammad, was black. Dr Carson was hired by the city to counter Mr Muhammad’s claims that the paramedics had treated him callously and aggravated his condition.  While the jury awarded Mr Muhammad $2 million for the actions of the police officer who tackled him, it did not find that the paramedics made Mr Muhammad’s injuries any worse.

Note: For rowhouse, see terraced house
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_house
(or townhouse, or rowhouse)