The prosecutor on Wednesday slid a picture onto a projector, screening for jurors the image of a 23-month-old boy sprawled on his stomach, naked and tilted, his arms outstretched and limp.
As the boy’s mother turned her head away in the courtroom, prosecutor Leslie Longshore repositioned the image and asked Hamilton County Assistant Chief Medical Examiner Steven Cogswell to explain what he saw.
“You can see right there in the middle of his back,” Cogswell said, “there is a patch.”
Arguments continued Wednesday in the criminally negligent homicide trial of Jaqueline Escareno, 52, who was caring for Demarcus Bryant when he died from a 25-microgram fentanyl patch on his right midback.
Prosecutors say Escareno, who wore prescribed fentanyl patches for a back injury, should have understood that she put Demarcus at substantial risk.