Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You decide to stick to the physical evidence.
You keep your theories about the son's comment to yourself. The police
don't need you in there playing detective.
This is the real-life decision of forensic pathologist Bill
Currie.
"You really have to let everybody do their own jobs," says Currie.
Based on years of experience, he says, you have to do your job properly
and not interfere with others. He was confident that if what the son said
was true, the police investigation would reveal that.
And it did. Soon after the death, the son was having some emotional problems
and eventually provided the police with more information. Soon thereafter,
the mother confessed to the murder.
Currie has seen cases in which he was positive a person was guilty of murder
but was not convicted because of the way information was handled by the lawyers
in the court proceedings. Even though his report was sound, there was nothing
more he could do.
It can be extremely frustrating, but you have to stay unattached and be
able to move on to the next case. You have to work within the system.