Jason Stinson, the former head football coach at Pleasure Ridge Park
High School, was in court Aug. 31 for the start of his trial on charges
of reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of one of his
players, Max Gilpin. Gilpin was 15 when he collapsed on the PRP practice field on August 20, 2008. Gilpin died three days later in the hospital.
Emergency medicine expert and U of L Professor Dr. William Smock has testified in the past as an expert witness for police and prosecutors. "The opinion was that Max, he died of heat stroke, but he did not die of dehydration," Smock said. "That was not the cause of his heat stroke. Based upon the information that I had read, in the medical record and the emergency medical literature, that the most likely cause of Max's heat stroke was that related to the use of amphetamines. That would have been Adderall."
Prosecutors argued that Smock's background does not qualify him as an expert on Adderall, a drug used to treat narcolepsy and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).Excerpted from wave3.com.
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