Michael Baden Quotations

The people who died were hit by shrapnel.

He was there. He heard our opinions. He did not object or defend himself.

I take this personal. I own these blocks.

It didn't happen the way she was being charged,

My opinion is that he died because of what you see in the videotape.

My opinion, ... ... is it was not caused by somebody's fingernail.

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

It's a deep, irregular cut and it was cut by some sharp, jagged object ... a jagged piece of glass or a knife. My opinion is it was most likely broken glass.

It's likely there was more than one perpetrator, ... It's hard for a single perpetrator to control two victims at the same time in a public place.

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, .fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

It takes some learning, ... but we each have our strengths. Linda's a great writer; I'm a great copy editor. I did a lot of copy editing at my college newspapers and other things, which I enjoyed very much. And I never saw anything that couldn't be changed: 'Four score and seven years ago?' What is that? Eighty-seven years ago!

I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.

You can see from the video that you would expect to find bruises.