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O'Keefe Rib Cage / Lividity Photo (T1 People's Ex 648)
Trial 1 rib-cage photograph. Scordi-Bello clarified on cross that the apparent bruising was postmortem lividity rather than a traumatic injury.
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The photograph corrected a potentially misleading impression from direct examination: what appeared to be bruising was post-mortem lividity, a distinction material to the injury causation analysis.
An autopsy photograph showing redness near John O'Keefe's rib cage, admitted in Trial 1. On cross-examination, Dr. Scordi-Bello clarified that the apparent bruising visible in the photograph was actually lividity — post-mortem blood pooling — rather than a traumatic injury.