The highly anticipated testimony of UCF head football coach George O’Leary was pushed back to Thursday morning — and KnightNews.com will stream live video of O’Leary’s testimony as it happens.
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O’Leary was in court briefly Wednesday afternoon, but left after he was told he’d be testifying Thursday instead in order to accommodate witness scheduling issues.
Among those who did get to testify Wednesday was a computer expert, who told jurors that when going through Ereck Plancher’s computer he did not find evidence of searches for “sickle,” “sickle cell” or “sickle cell trait” or terms of that nature on Plancher’s computer.
While the plaintiffs believe that helps prove Plancher was never told by UCF that he had sickle cell trait, the defense pointed out how Plancher could have searched those terms on other computers or on a cell phone.
Dr. Joshua Stephany of the Orange County Medical Examiner’s office was back on the stand Wednesday. Debate from his testimony centered around whether an independent doctor that corresponded with the medical examiner influenced his decision that sickle cell trait was a cause of Plancher’s death.
Stephany talked about how he did his own independent research and testified that he wasn’t influenced by the expert, who was later retained as an expert by the plaintiff.
David Kelly, who was UCF’s wide receivers coach at the time of Plancher’s death, testified he did not know Plancher, a wide receiver, had the sickle cell trait via video deposition.
