The Truth Hurts wrote:
Really? No one wants to comment on Patsys outright lies about the pineapple?
IDIs? Aren't you going to come up with an excuse for her? ;)
That's not outright lies by Patsy. It looks as though the Ramseys thought the pineapple matter was an urban legend from what they wrote in their book DOI. Just because Lou Smit and Tom Haney said it was pineapple in JonBenet's body wasn't evidence. They never backed that up with a forensic report and test results.
It looks as though there was an opinion from a Dr. Sperry. The Ramseys might have consulted their own experts about the pineapple matter but all that seems to be shrouded in secrecy.
This is an edited version of the legal wrangling about the pineapple matter from the Atlanta 2000 Ramsey interview, if anybody can make any sense of this:
21 Q.(By Mr. Kane) Have you had any
22 forensic people look into the issue of the
23 pineapple that was found in JonBenet's
24 digestive tract?
25 MR. WOOD: Let me ask you this,
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1 Michael. Are you stating as a matter of
2 fact that it was pineapple without any
3 question?
4 MR. KANE: That was stated two
5 years ago in the interview. Yes. There is
6 no doubt about it.
7 MR. WOOD: Are you stating it as
8 fact?
9 MR. KANE: Lou Smith told Mr.
10 Ramsey that too.
11 MR. WOOD: I just want to make
12 sure it's clear that you're stating it as a
13 matter of fact and not opinion that it is
14 pineapple.
15 MR. KANE: It is pineapple.
16 Q.(By Mr. Kane) Why did you state,
17 let me ask you, why did you state in your
18 book that it was pineapple?
19 MR. WOOD: Are you going to
20 withdraw the last question?
21 MR. KANE: Lin, look, this is not
22 -- we are not in court.
14 Q.(By Mr. Kane) Have you talked to
15 anybody about findings of pineapple in her
16 digestive system?
17 A. No.
18 Q. In your book you said that this
19 was -- that that became an urban legend.
9 MR. WOOD: All right. We're back
10 to Mr. Kane's question now. Did you have a
11 page, Michael?
12 MR. KANE: Yeah, on Page 273 in
13 the middle.
14 Q.(By Mr. Kane) You say
15 apparently, during the autopsy, an issue was
16 raised about the possibility of JonBenet
17 having eaten pineapple. Do you recall -- do
18 you recall, during the interviews in June of
19 1998, being told that there was, in fact,
20 pineapple in her system?
21 A. I don't remember the specific
22 discussion. I believe someone said there may
23 have been something that looked like
24 pineapple.
25 Q. Okay.
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1 A. I'm not - no one ever has told
2 me that it was definitively pineapple.
3 Q. All right. Did John -- so John
4 never told you that Lou Smith told him that
5 it was definitely pineapple?
6 A. No.
7 Q. Have you, whether it was pineapple
8 or any other type of fruit, it is your
9 understanding that you haven't asked any
10 forensic experts to, gastroenterologist or
11 someone of that nature, someone with a
12 medical background, what their opinion of
13 that being in her system is?
14 A. I don't know. That may have been
15 part of the presentation that was being
16 prepared.
17 Q. Well, the presentation was Dr.
18 Sperry. Let me just clarify this. Was
19 anybody else besides Dr. Sperry going to take
20 part in that presentation, to your knowledge?
21 A. To my knowledge, there were
22 several people involved.
23 Q. But you don't know who these
24 people are?
25 A. No.
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1 Q. Do you know what their fields of
2 expertise were?
3 A. I am sorry, I don't.
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