Accused tot killer faces trial
When Coeur d’Alene paramedic John Morrison made his way through the basement of a Fifth Street apartment one evening last summer, he was met with a sight he had not seen before.
The former Coeur d’Alene Fire battalion chief saw a small boy wearing pull-up diapers and lying on clothing fellow medics had cut from his body. The boy was rigid, his arms and feet spread out, his feet pointed downward with the toes curled. The child was unconscious and his head listed tensely to one side.
Morrison had a word for it. “Decerebrate posturing,” he told the court Wednesday on the first day in the murder trial of Joseph John Davis.
“I don’t recall seeing it in any other case,” Morrison said. “The cause is typically something to do with the brain, such as a head injury”/Ralph Bartholdt, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.
