The white knight, of course, is Dr. Michael Pollanen, Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist since 2006, the year that allegations about Smith reached a critical mass and prompted a sweeping coroner’s review. Pollanen brought up the fact that “this is actually an area that has been studied in the medical literature. It’s — in the medical literature you look (it) up…”And that literature, Pollanen said, showed that “falls in childhood are innocuous. But Gorham did what he suggested, and reviewed the literature, and by the time Pollanen testified at the pre-trial before Molloy, Gorham had his ducks in order. Pollanen had testified about the cause of death in a so-called “shaken baby” case that sent a man to jail.

Source: National Post April 28, 2017 16:30 UTC