RAMSEY CO., Minn. (FOX 9) – A controversial medical diagnosis is at the center of a jury trial examining the death of Nekeya Moody after an encounter with Ramsey County deputies.
Medical examiner defends cause of death as excited delirium
What we know:
Dr. Butch Huston, the medical examiner, testified for the defense and stood firmly behind his diagnosis of excited delirium as the cause of Moody’s death.
Huston explained that he reached this conclusion by ruling out other possible causes, such as asphyxia, and said the deputies did not cause Moody’s death by putting her in the prone position. Huston said cocaine and physical exertion lead to excited delirium and that that is what killed her…