How can you choke your girlfriend to death with your dick , let her body decompose for 2 days, and be acquitted of murder? WTF
"Dr. Ronald Wright, an expert witness and former Broward County medical examiner, testified that ... her death is consistent with being accidentally sexually asphyxiated during oral sex'
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Margate man acquitted in murder case after oral-sex defense - Sun Sentinel
Richard Henry Patterson, the Margate man who initially claimed his girlfriend choked to death during oral sex, was found not guilty Monday of second-degree murder.
The verdict was announced just under five hours after the jury began its deliberations.
Most significantly, Sapak said, Patterson did not call police or paramedics. He called Graff, who put him in touch with Padowitz.
After consulting with Padowitz, Patterson?s attitude changed from contrition to ?preservation,? Sapak said. He was recorded repeatedly telling Graff not to talk about the case and insisting that he could not go to jail.
Padowitz concentrated on the evidence that could not be presented at trial.
Padowitz downplayed the argument that was a centerpiece of his opening statement, that Marquinez may have choked to death while performing oral sex on Patterson. Defense medical expert Ronald Wright said such a death was consistent with the physical evidence, but he agreed with the prosecution?s expert, Louri Boiko, who said it was unlikely because of what it would have involved.
The victim would need to have her air supply cut off for at least 30 seconds before she passed out, then at least another two to three minutes before she died.
Even Padowitz admitted Monday that was not a reasonable theory for the jury to believe.
?That?s not the way she died,? Padowitz said. "But that?s the way Richard Patterson thought she died.?