Quote (Santara @ May 20 2022 05:59pm)
The fentanyl in his system did not kill him. Not only did doctors testify to that effect, but it's also been noted that the ratio of fentanyl to norfentanyl (a byproduct of metabolized fentanyl) indicates that he was well past being high and coming down. The "lethal dose" is lethal... 50% of the time, meaning that just having a higher than "lethal dose" concentration of the drug does not mean it would automatically kill him. He was clearly well used to the drug.
For him to have that much metabolized fentanyl in his system after that many hours with that much unmetabolized left, from a dosing hours earlier, would require an astronomical initial dose. He had enough fentanyl in his system to kill an average person without 50 comorbidities, the idea that he could have 5x that much initially is just nonsense. Thats enough to kill an elephant. It would automatically kill him several times over. Nobody can build up that kind of resistance, let alone someone with deaths-door chronic hear disease, let alone someone who nearly died just months earlier
to the same drugsThe only scenario consistent with his amount of both metabolized and unmetabolized fentanyl is that he had hours earlier been doing drugs and then consumed another large dose just minutes prior to his death. Which is exactly what is reflected by all the evidence at the scene. Hours of video and testimony showing him high as a kite that morning to the point of becoming unresponsive. Then when the cops showed up, he freaked out, and while cuffed and in the back seat of a squad car he spat up several partially digested fentanyl laced percocets. Which would be impossible except if he had swallowed the bag when he saw the cops. You can't spit up pills you swallowed hours earlier, digested and metabolized.
There's no other consistent explanation for that ratio of fentanyl:norfentanyl. All the prosecutors did was point out that most overdose deaths dont have such a ratio, which is a blatantly misleading and obviously deceptive argument: most overdose deaths don't involve people getting high hours apart after metabolizing drugs, they occur in one go. It says something about the prosecution that they were relying on bamboozling jurors, like the role of defense in a typical trial. All they had to do was sow doubt and they would convict.
This post was edited by Goomshill on May 20 2022 08:17pm