Dr. Randy Alexander

you know, and I'm in Florida, I'll say, okay, here, you know, they tell me a little bit about the case.

And I said, here's all the records I want you to send me.

So I go through the records and I read them.

It may be thousands and thousands of pages, not all of which have to take a tremendous amount of scrutiny, but it's not, you spend hours, you know, kind of going through these things.

And I want to see what the raw data is in the first place.

And I want to see what the EMS people saw when they went out to the home and got the child originally.

I want to see what the radiology is.

I want to see a bunch of these other things.

And it's by going through that sort of stuff that I might have formed an opinion.

on something like that.

But I would be very wary if somebody said, over the phone, they said, well, here's a few details about the case.

What do you think?

I'd say, well, I think I need to see more data in the first place.

You know, you can sort of say, I wonder if it's in this area, but I certainly wouldn't want to commit to that without, you know, knowing more facts.

It's really important that we be factually correct.

And one of the things that I teach my trainees, I've taught for a long time, is about accuracy.

And so you're working a lot in accuracy.

None of us wants to see an innocent person go to jail.

And we're not super happy about somebody that's a threat to children not going to jail.

But obviously, the whole system is geared so that we don't convict that much, that the barrier is quite high to convict somebody.