Goodwin v. State

Maria Teresa Josephina Goodwin and Julie Elizabeth Poole were co-workers at a greenhouse or plant nursery. The two were roughhousing with each other at work when Poole shoved Goodwin and, in response, Goodwin grabbed Poole by the neck. Poole collapsed and died shortly thereafter. The state’s medical expert testified that: there were virtually no signs of forcible injury on Poole’s neck, the cause of death was not strangulation or asphyxiation but was heart dysrhythmia brought on by the pressure from Goodwin’s hands to the carotid sinus in Poole’s neck, and the amount of pressure to the…