ABSTRACT
For over a decade, the law enforcement community has labored under the burden of the flawed medical opinion of a pathologist named Dr. Donald Reay, the medical examiner of King County in Washington State. Dr. Reay was of the opinion that the hog-tying of combative suspects could result in death from a condition that he designated positional asphyxia. Hog-tying prisoners was alleged to interfere with their breathing, thus causing death.
