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Patricia Stallings Case
The case of my client, Patricia Stallings, is one with great controversy. We have opened her case again because of substantial evidence of her innocence. I believe that my client is innocent of the charges the court has wrongly fully accused her of. True, at the beginning of the case it seemed like a classic case of an abusive mother poisoning her own child; however with the birth of her 2nd child, David Jr., important new evidence was discovered. He suffered from the same symptoms that Ryan had suffered. But how could David Jr. be poisoned when his mother was behind bars? More testing was done on Ryan’s blood and many laboratories have found strong evidence in the possibility of …show more content…
This case would have came to an accurate conclusion had the case been treated with more thorough analysis and patience.
When Patricia’s 2ndchild was born he was diagnosed with MMA. A rare metabolic disease that has similar symptoms to what Ryan was having before he passed. There is a compound found in MMA that could have been misidentified as ethylene glycol called propionic acid. These two chemicals have similar characteristics such as both being colorless, combustible and moderately toxic if ingested or absorbed. These two chemicals can be easily mixed up, especially when one is expecting to find ethylene glycol and not knowing of the possibility of another substance being present. The handling of the blood work is also very susceptible to human error. The laboratory used to originally test Ryan’s blood used a method called GC-MS, which its accuracy on results depends strongly on the technician’s skill and interpretation of data. Further testing was done on a sample of Ryan’s blood and our

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