Steve Thomas' deposition in Wolf v. Ramsey

"24 Q. The pineapple, we know the autopsy 25 statement about the findings. Were there any

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1 tests performed beyond the autopsy on those 2 contents? 3 A. Yes. 4 Q. Tell me about that. 5 A. What I know about that is 6 Detective Weinheimer received that assignment 7 during the course of the investigation, 8 employed the help of I think a biological -- 9 or a botanist or somebody of some expertise 10 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The 11 name Dr. Bach jumps out at me, as well as 12 others, and he completed a series of reports 13 concerning the pineapple and I think to save 14 time one of those conclusions I think I put 15 in the book. 16 Q. About the rinds being identical? 17 A. That it was a fresh pineapple 18 consistent -- fresh pineapple with a rind. 19 Q. Rind being consistent -- oh, with 20 a rind but consistent with pineapple found in 21 the house or in the bowl? 22 A. Yeah, and let me clarify that, 23 pineapple consistent down to the rind with 24 pineapple found in the bowl in the kitchen. 25 Q. Consistent down to the rind. It

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1 seems to me pineapple with rind is pineapple 2 with rind. Was there something unique about 3 this particular rind? 4 A. I think they were able to 5 determine -- well, in fact, I know that 6 fellow Officer Weinheimer disclosed to us that 7 they were able to characterize it as a fresh 8 pineapple rather than a canned pineapple. 9 Q. Okay. 10 A. I think the investigation lent 11 itself as far as, and Detective Weinheimer is 12 a capable investigator, as far as contacting 13 Dole Pineapple in Hawaii, et cetera. 14 Q. Do you know whether there were any 15 other reports on the pineapple, other than 16 the autopsy reports and Dr. Bach's reports? 17 A. Yeah, there was a series of 18 reports on Weinheimer's investigation. 19 Q. Do you know anybody else by name 20 that was involved in that, other than the Dr. 21 Bach? I mean, Dole didn't give you any 22 report, did they? 23 A. No, not that I'm aware of. 24 Sorry, the names escape me but there are 25 other reports with other planters, I guess,

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1 pineapple, for lack of a better term, 2 experts. 3 Q. Any of those reports, anybody come 4 up with something that was inconclusive in 5 terms of findings? 6 A. I'm sorry, I don't recall the 7 content of the reports."