Affidavits, Declarations and Statements


September 4, 1984

United States District Court
Eastern District of North Carolina

Declaration of Ronald Wright, M.D.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA
FAYETTEVILLE DIVISION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA : Criminal No. 75-26-CR-3
v. :
JEFFREY R. MACDONALD : Civil No. 84-41 CIV-3
GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE TO MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL

Declaration of Ronald K. Wright, M.D.


(1) I reaffirm the facts and opinions of my affidavit of February 15, 1984.

(2) In analyzing the severe blow to Colette MacDonald's head, the handedness of the person cannot be determined with certainty. Individuals intoxicated with psychomimetic drugs or enraged by their wife cannot be presumed to strike with their handed side. Therefore, while perhaps slightly more often forceful blows delivered from a deceased's right to left are delivered by left handed folk (adjusting for their minority status); it is certainly not unusual to see such a blow delivered by a right handed individual.

/Ronald K. Wright, M.D./
Ronald K. Wright, M.D.
Chief Medical Examiner
4 September 1984


Sworn to and subscribed before me this    4    day of September A.D. 1984

/Francis B Duhan/
Notary Public State of Florida
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