One certainly does not associate the work of a podiatrist with helping to free a man accused in a murder case from life in prison. But, if that podiatrist also doubles as a forensic podiatrist, such an occurrence can come about.
Dr. Michael Forman, a Pepper Pike resident who practices in the Brainard Place medical building, 29001 Cedar Road in Lyndhurst, decided about four years ago that he wanted to add a little spice to his practice and pursued a podiatric forensics degree. A forensic podiatrist deals with shoeprints and footprints found at crime scenes.
“It was a lot of hard work,” Forman said, “but I wanted to try something different.”
Part of Forman’s study was done with FBI shoeprint expert William Bodziak, who testified during the O.J. Simpson trial as to bloody shoeprints found at the murder scene made by Bruno Magli shoes. In the end, all of Forman’s work paid off in a big way for a New Zealand defendant.
While most forensic podiatrists are called in to give supplemental testimony as a defense or prosecuting lawyer builds a case, Forman’s work in the Scott Guy murder case in far-off New Zealand proved to be decisive in the finding of Ewan Macdonald not guilty of a murder charge.
“It was the most famous criminal case in the history of New Zealand jurisprudence, similar to the O.J. case in the U.S.,” Forman noted.
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