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Treadmill Abuse Murder Trial
Christopher Gregor is charged with murder and endangering the welfare of a child in the death of his 6-year-old son. Corey Micciolo was allegedly forced to run on a treadmill because his father believed he was too fat. Prosecutors believe Corey died from injuries sustained from chronic abuse.
S1, EP35 "Blaming The Mother"
Christopher Gregor's defense ripped Corey Micciolo's mother during closing arguments. Gregor's lead attorney reminded jurors how Breanna Micciolo was dealing with an addiction to methamphetamine while battling with the defendant over sole custody for Corey. The defense kept alluding to their claim that young Corey tragically lost his life from an infection that he suddenly and rapidly got while in his father's care.
S1, EP36 "Defense Attorney Gets Animated"
The Defense's long closing arguments was filled with accusations and criticisms of the State's witnesses. Mario Gallucci, the Defense's lead attorney, argued why Corey Micciolo's mother, teacher, and even doctors made claims under oath to make Christopher Gregor appear as an abusive, out-of-control father who didn't care about his son's well-being. Gallucci got animated for the jury during closing arguments. He ripped the state's assertion that Gregor was emotionless after the death of his son.
S1, EP37 "How The Treadmill Abuse Led To Murder"
It was now the State's turn to address jurors during closing arguments. The prosecutor went straight into the Defense's assertions that Corey Micciolo was a victim of pneumonia-possibly contracted in the hospital before he died. For the State the treadmill video was key to their allegations of child endangerment that led to a child homicide. In closing arguments, the lead prosecutor reminded the jury of how the incident was a window to unchecked child abuse.
S1, EP38 "Fatal Victim Of Child Abuse"
He doesn't care was how the state viewed Christopher Gregor, as the allegedly abusive father who intentionally killed his son, Corey Micciolo, in his care. How a six-year-old boy slowly died was revisited for the jury during the State's closing arguments. Lead prosecutor Christine Lento made clear that Corey was a victim of child abuse because of the pattern and amounts of bruising in the last days of his life.
S1, EP34 "Closing Arguments"
Closing arguments began after the Defense rested their case arguing to the jury why Christopher Gregor did not kill Corey Micciolo, his six-year-old son. During the closing arguments in his lead attorney brought jurors back to the beginning of the family drama Corey was living. The defense reminded the jury that the defendant came into Corey's life when he was just five years old and while his mother was battling an illicit drug addiction.
S1, EP33 "Deadly And Rapid Pnuemonia"
Cross-examination began on the Defense's medical expert. Dr. Michael Baden testified in detail that Corey Micciolo most likely died of a lung inflammation and not as a result of physical abuse at the hands of his doctor. Dr. Baden not only explained how six-year-old Corey died but how he sustained the injuries he received. He claimed the six-year-old died of a sudden, rapid pneumonia and the lacerations to his heart, lung, and liver were due to vigorous cpr applied on him to save his life.
S1, EP32 "A Second Medical Opinion"
A second medical opinion to how six-year-old Corey Micciolo was relayed to the jury. On the stand was the Defense's forensic pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, who happened to specialize in child abuse and blunt force trauma. None of which he claimed defendant, Christopher Gregor, did to Corey to lead to his death. The process and results of conducting an autopsy was made clear to jurors.
S1, EP31 "Dr. Michael Baden"
Jurors got a lecture from the defense's forensic pathology expert. After reviewing case notes and the autopsy report, Dr. Michael Baden concluded Corey Micciolo most likely died of an infection and not blunt-force trauma, as the State asserted. Dr. Baden's expertise in this case was three-fold. One, forensic pathology. Two, child abuse. And three, blunt-force trauma.
