前教授周序申告贏紐約州立大學, 獲陪審團判賠60萬美元
華裔教授和學生告美國大學案例介紹
華裔驗屍官鮑世平
曾為佛州被槍殺少年馬丁驗屍、並在齊默曼案件中作證的華裔驗屍官鮑世平(Shiping Bao，譯音)遭到佛州Volusia縣政府解僱，他現在起訴前僱主民族歧視(Ethnic Discrimination)、錯誤終止雇用(Wrongful Termination)罪名, 並提出$100 million索賠請求。
綜合CBS等媒體報道，Volusia縣10日公布一封信件，表示上周已解僱鮑世平。發言人拜倫拒絕給出理由。但是懷疑這與鮑世平在齊默曼案中給出的口供前後不一有關。
鮑世平為Volusia縣前副驗屍官，來自中國，他自2011年7月開始為Volusia縣工作，年薪17萬5950元。
2012年2月，佛州少年馬丁遭齊默曼槍殺，鮑世平負責驗屍。去年7月，他在齊默曼案審訊時，卻突然改變證詞。
之前鮑世平曾表示，馬丁遭槍擊後1至3分鍾死亡，但是他在法庭上卻表示改變看法，稱馬丁遭槍擊後可能又存活了1至10分鍾。
另外，之前鮑世平表示，毒理檢驗顯示馬丁體內有大麻，但是並不足以對其造成身體或精神上的影響。而他後來在法庭上改口說，這些大麻或許會對其行為造成影響。
鮑世平告訴辯護律師韋斯特說，自己是在審訊前3周才改變看法。韋斯特質問他是否曾通知檢方，鮑世平說沒有。
鮑世平在法庭上表示，自己沒發現改變看法有什麽問題。他說：「如果你有新的信息、新的經驗、你讀了一本新書，你就改變看法。如果有人從不改變看法，你可以說他們智力低下。你永遠學不到新東西，對吧？」
鮑世平說，他是根據另外一宗類似馬丁案的案件而改變看法的。他說，自己是在閱讀個人筆記時產生新的想法。但是當韋斯特要求閱讀他的筆記時，他表示拒絕。
法官奈爾森於是命令鮑世平提交筆記，並告知他，雙方律師都有權查看他所閱讀的筆記。鮑世平於是從命，並且要求韋斯特盡快歸還筆記。
許多觀看齊默曼案件審訊的人都相信，鮑世平的證詞十分關鍵。但是雙方律師都打斷他的證詞，這或許是陪審團得出無罪結論的原因之一。
8月7日，鮑世平獲得通知，要求他30日內提交辭職信，另謀高就。但是他沒有照辦。他隨後遭解僱，9月6日生效。
鮑世平已經雇用了66歲的佛州名律師蓋瑞為其打官司。鮑世平被解僱後，他的律師已經向美國平等就業機會委員會（EEOC）提交民族歧視投訴，目前EEOC正在就此進行調查。
華裔驗屍官鮑世平的驗屍報告。
工作時間不長, 很難積累足夠證據建立指控. 本人有過佛州白人警察謊報事故地點以偏袒白人被告的經曆(當時忍了).
旦願Dr. Bao 留心已久,勝拳在手.
這個驗屍官不專業，不誠實。現在屍體沒有了吧，無有對證！
作為驗屍官證詞反複是比較嚴重的，你必須提供能得出改變的新線索，而不是opinion變來變去。如果是受到政治壓力作偽證，那事情就更大了（解雇案的論據似乎暗示這種可能）。
不過還是希望他能勝訴！
您說得對! 美國國會議員的工資是$174,000.
Position Salary
Vice President $230,700
Delegates to the House of Representatives $174,000
Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico $174,000
President pro tempore of the Senate $193,400
Majority leader and minority leader of the Senate $193,400
Majority leader and minority leader of the House of Representatives $193,400
Speaker of the House of Representatives $223,500
驗屍官的工資是由所工作的縣製訂的, 富的縣,屍體多的縣工資就高。美國國會議員的工資是由聯邦政府製訂的, 所以工資都是一樣的。
Victor Swift, a Stuart attorney, said Dr. Shiping Bao, a native of China who performed the autopsy on Trayvon Martin, is being blamed for mistakes in the state’s case against Zimmerman. Bao, who lives in Port Orange, earned $176,000 per year.
“Why should the Chinese-American guy get fired and all the white people who worked on the case, none of them got fired,” Swift said.
Documents from the county indicate that officials had expected him to resign. When Bao did not, he was terminated.
County spokesman Dave Byron said the county would have nothing to say on the matter.
“Because this is a personnel matter, the county as a standard practice will have no comment,” Byron wrote in an email.
County officials met with Bao to discuss the “status of his employment” on Aug. 7, 2013, about a month after his testimony, and gave him 30 days of personal leave to find another job, which was consistent with other employees leaving the county, according to a letter dated Aug. 23, 2013, from George Recktenwald, the county’s director of Public Protection. The meeting was requested by Medical Examiner Dr. Marie Herrmann, according to the letter from Recktenwald, who wrote it was also attended by Deputy Director Terry Sanders.
It was agreed that Bao was going to submit a letter of resignation “on or before” the 13th day, Recktenwald wrote.
“In the absence of a letter of resignation your employment will end on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013,” Recktenwald wrote on Aug. 23.
Recktenwald wrote the action cannot be appealed.
Swift said the county told Bao he was being fired because of poor communication skills. Swift said no one had complained about his communication skills when he was hired.
Swift also said that Bao’s workplace started to become hostile once he began work on the Martin case.
Bao started working with the county on July 30, 2011, and his last evaluation on record covered a one-year period ending July 30, 2012. Bao received a score of 87 which placed him in the “Exceeds Expectations” range of 80 to 95.
The evaluation signed by Herrmann and Recktenwald said that Bao cooperates with co-workers and completes assignments in a timely manner.
“Dr. Bao is thorough in his casework and formulates logical and defensible cause of death opinions; researches the literature as needed on unusual findings,” the evaluation states.
It also states that at the time Bao had not yet had any cases go to trial locally but that he routinely explained his findings to law enforcement and attorneys.
Swift said that, since the firing, attorneys have filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Bao’s behalf claiming ethnic discrimination and wrongful termination. Complaint documents were not available Tuesday.
Bao received national attention, including a short-lived popularity on Twitter when he testified during George Zimmerman’s trial on second-degree murder charges for killing Martin. Zimmerman was acquitted.
During the trial, defense attorney Don West questioned Bao about his findings in Martin’s autopsy. Bao had initially estimated that Martin lived from one to three minutes after Zimmerman shot him. But on the stand in July, Bao said he had changed his opinion and that Martin had lived from one to 10 minutes.
Bao interrupted West at times.
“Today you said that it would be one to 10 minutes so your opinion has changed . . .” West said.
“Opinion always can be changed,” Bao said.
Judge Debra Nelson told Bao to let West finish his question. But a few moments later Bao lectured West about opinions.
“First, I need to explain to you what is opinion,” Bao said. “OK, opinion can be changed. That’s why you ask jury to be open minded to have open mind. Opinion there is no truth or false, just right or wrong, if you have new information, if you have new experience, if you read a new book, you are changed opinion. If someone never change opinion, you can call mental retarded. You never learn, right.”
Bao told West he had changed his opinion three weeks before the trial because of a more recent case similar to Martin’s.
“Did you contact the State Attorney’s Office to tell them that you had changed your opinion on that important matter?” West asked.
“No, I did not,” Bao said.
Swift said on Tuesday that Bao had eight points he wanted to make during the trial but was blocked by prosecutors from State Attorney Angela Corey’s office of the 4th Judicial Circuit in Jacksonville. Swift said Bao wanted to testify that Martin was not on top of Zimmerman. He also wanted to say that the amount of marijuana in Martin’s system would have made him less aggressive.
Corey’s spokeswoman, Jackelyn Barnard, wrote in an email that “The State Attorney’s Office has no administrative responsibility for the office in which Dr. Bao worked.”
Swift said Bao was stunned by the firing.
“It was quite a shock to him,” Swift said.
http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20130910/NEWS/130919984/1040?p=all&tc=pgall
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. —
Dr. Shiping Bao's testimony raised eyebrows during the George Zimmerman trial.
"I believe it is my opinion that Trayvon Martin was in a lot of pain, and that he was suffering," Bao said July 5 during testimony in the George Zimmerman trial.
On the stand, Dr. Bao changed his testimony about key statements he'd made and said he'd changed his mind about Martin only being alive for as many as three minutes after the shooting.
"I believe he was alive one to 10 minutes after he was shot. His heart was beating until there was no blood left," Bao said.
Dr. Bao is dropping another bombshell -- his attorney is preparing a $100 million lawsuit.
Through his high-profile attorney, he claims the medical examiner, state attorney's office, and Sanford Police Department were all biased against Martin.
"He says their general attitude was that he got what he deserved," Attorney Willie Gary told Channel 9.
Gary said Dr. Bao was made to be a scapegoat and was wrongfully fired from the medical examiner's office. He said his client was prepared to offer proof that Martin was not the aggressor.
"He was in essence told to zip his lips. 'Shut up. Don't say those things,'" Gary said.
Gary said prosecutors never asked Dr. Bao a question crucial to their case.
"He wanted a question that would have allowed him to explain to the jury with scientific evidence how there was no way Trayvon Martin could have been on top of George Zimmerman," Gary said.
Gary said that question never came.
Dr. Shiping Bao, the recently fired Florida medical examiner who performed Trayvon Martin‘s autopsy, is allegedly claiming that George Zimmerman shot Martin through the back, reports Alternet’s Rod Bastanmehr.
“According to the former assistant coroner, the results of Martin’s autopsy clearly showed that, despite Zimmerman’s statements regarding their altercation, there was no feasible way for Martin to have been on top of Zimmerman when the gun was fired, because the bullet entered Martin’s back,” Alternet reports.
This allegation is shocking (and dubious) for several reasons, including the fact that Martin having been shot through the heart at close range was a pivotal point during the trial as both the defense and prosecution teams attempted to paint a picture of the fatal encounter — specifically, whom was the aggressor during the altercation.
More importantly, Bao himself signed off on Trayvon Martin’s autopsy report stating that the entrance wound was through the chest at “intermediate range.”
If these allegations are true, that would make Bao complicit in the very same alleged cover-up that he has exposed.
As previously reported by NewsOne, Bao claims that Florida state prosecutors were biased against Trayvon Martin and purposely threw the case, and he is suing the state for $100 million.
According to Bao, the medical examiner, state attorney’s office, and Sanford Police Department all felt that Martin “got what he deserved.” Bao also claims that he received the strong, though subtle, message not to speak on certain things:
“He was in essence told to zip his lips. ‘Shut up. Don’t say those things,’” said Bao’s legal counsel, legendary Attorney Willie Gary.
Bao’s allegations come swiftly on the heels of him being fired from his position as associate medical examiner.
Volusia County released a letter on Tuesday, stating that Bao was fired last week. Spokesman Dave Byrondeclined to give a reason for Bao’s termination, citing “county standard personnel practices,” reports CBS News.
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