“The hospital physicians attending told the police who had arrived at the scene not to speak to her for at least two hours after surgery because she was put under general anesthesia,” Akers’ lawyer, Debra Saltz, told us in an interview.

“So the police, rather than wait two hours, interviewed her. I think it was approximately an hour and 20 minutes later, they began an interview.”

Saltz challenged the admissibility of the interview in court. But presiding Judge McCrone ruled that Akers “sounded okay” after reviewing a recording of the interview. [emphasis mine]

Who needs practicing anaesthesiologists who've spent years at the bleeding edge of science learning how sedative drugs affect human consciousness when you have Timothy J. McCrone, (now former) judge for the Howard County Circuit Court, who can eyeball a video and say "ah, fuck it"?

Holy shit did these people literally use Monty Python logic to convict a woman of murder???

Fuck sake. Next they'll take the accused to the corpse to see if it 'spits blood' in the presence of the murderer. Old as the practice was, what happened in this Maryland case sounds almost as uninformed and ludicrous.

Bring back phlogiston therapy!

Bet she wasn't white....I hate this reality