Defense ER Doctor Tells the Jury Jade Benning's Symptoms Point to Fentanyl Not Cocaine | Pt 51

Snoring. Foaming. Breathing that just slowed down. The defense put a 30-year ER doctor on the stand to tell the jury that picture is fentanyl, not a spiked drink. This is the trial of Blaise Taylor, the former Tennessee Titans scout accused of poisoning his pregnant girlfriend, Jade Benning, by lacing her pink lemonade with cocaine because he did not want the baby. Jade and her unborn daughter Ivy both died. Dr. Kelly Larkin is a board-certified emergency physician who has spent 30 years in emergency rooms and treated hundreds of overdoses. The defense brought her in to do one thing: tell the jury this looks like an accidental fentanyl overdose, not a murder. Watch what she builds from the 911 call and the hospital records, then watch the state stand up. The prosecution does not argue the medicine with her. It goes after how she got ready, the informal notes she wrote with the facts wrong, and the one thing her whole theory needs that the lab never found. The defense has fought the science in this case since the contaminated scene. Larkin is the doctor they hope can turn that doubt into an answer. The question by the end is whether a fentanyl overdose theory can stand when no fentanyl was ever found in Jade's blood. --- WATCH WITH JUSTICE 07:49 to 12:27 - Larkin builds the fentanyl picture out of a single word Taylor used on the 911 call: snoring. She tells the jury that sound is not sleep, it is the body running out of oxygen, the start of a respiratory arrest. 16:27 to 25:25 - The records walk-through. Larkin shows the jury the hospital gave Jade a paralyzing agent and started a fentanyl drip, and points out that drip did not start until early on the 26th, hours after she collapsed. 30:34 to 35:54 - The heart of the defense's case. Larkin lays cocaine against fentanyl, a stimulant against a depressant, and tells the jury Jade's symptoms line up with fentanyl. She says fentanyl was in her system before the hospital ever touched her. 40:34 to 43:24 - The state's cross opens hard. Larkin concedes she is not a toxicologist and not a forensic pathologist, that Dr. Carney is, and that Jade came in with no pulse, brought back from cardiac arrest. 44:33 to 51:22 - Watch the state turn to her notes. Larkin admits she wrote down facts that were wrong, a female paramedic she called a man, a meeting with a drug dealer the record does not support, and the prosecution asks what that says about the rest of her opinion. 51:22 to 57:56 - The hole at the center of the fentanyl theory. The state walks Larkin to the fact that no fentanyl was ever found in Jade's blood, and that the hospital did not give her any until hours after she went down. 1:03:51 to 1:05:44 - On redirect the defense lands its closing point: the autopsy calls this acute cocaine toxicity, but the manner of death, whether anyone caused it, was left undetermined. --- COMPLETE CASE COVERAGE justiceisaprocess.com SUBSCRIBE for daily trial coverage and hit the notification bell so you never miss testimony. JOIN to unlock the Case Notebook powered by NotebookLM, where you can chat with the evidence, ask questions about testimony, and go deeper than any comment section allows. CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/tn-... Complete case overview including the charges, the timeline, the key players, and the legal questions this trial raises. State of Tennessee v. Blaise Taylor. Davidson County Criminal Court in Nashville, Judge Steve Dozier presiding. Taylor faces two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of felony murder in the deaths of Jade Benning and her unborn child. He is presumed innocent. The state is seeking life without parole. PLAYLISTS AND RESOURCES Website: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/cov... Full Trial Live Broadcasts:    • TN v. Blaise Taylor - LIVE BROADCAST   No Breaks Edition:    • TN v. Blaise Taylor - NO BREAKS EDITION   Trial Analysis Podcast:    • TN v. Blaise Taylor - CASE STORY TRIAL POD...   Key Moments and Testimony:    • TN v. Blaise Taylor - KEY CLIPS AND TESTIMONY   Subscribe for Daily Coverage:    / @justiceisaprocess   FAIR USE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. #JusticeIsAProcess #BlaiseTaylor #JadeBenning