Bennet's Trial Against Dr. Wecht
Bennet began his second day of trial against Dr. Wecht in Pittsburgh 2008. Be ynnet still feels so uncomfortable having to testify against Wecht, but he still had no choice in the matter. Bennet just wanted to go back to his wife and home in California. The defendant lawyer than began his questioning on Bennet. He asked Bennet about how he was paid, if he was afraid during the FBI investigation, and about his immigration. Finally he asked Bennet about CTE and his discovery. He asked Bennet about the publicity that came along with it and Bennet says that he does not like it and sometimes wishes he never discovered the disease because of all the trouble that has come along with it. The trial ends 10 days later in a hung jury in April of 2008.
After the trial Davies comes and looks at the slides of CTE and is stunned. He did not believe Bennet and what he had been saying but when he looked at the slides that all changed. The NFl asked Michigan University to run tests in hopes of proving Bennet wrong, but they found that Bennet was right all along. The NFL finally agreed to take precautions. They put up posters in the locker room telling the players to get checked out when they receive a blow to the head. They even started giving fines to players for “devastating hits” and “head shots” .The fans of the NFl did not like the rule because they thought that it became too boring and weak. On April 26, 2010, Owen Thomas, a 21 year old defensive end for the University of Pennsylvania, hangs himself. Thomas was the youngest person diagnosed with CTE. Bennet then discovers that it may not be the big “ knock out” hits that give a person CTE, but the little small hits that no one thinks about. While everything was going on with the NFL, Bennet’s father died. He decided not to bring Prema, Ashely or their 3 year old boy to Nigeria. The NHI replaced the old MTBI committee. They came and took a brain from Bennet that he was supposed to autopsy and later they received a $30 million dollar donation from the NFL. After Bennet’s father’s funeral and Bennet, instead of his mother, threw a rose on his coffin instead of dirt , he came back to America and began writing a letter to the pope.
After the trial Davies comes and looks at the slides of CTE and is stunned. He did not believe Bennet and what he had been saying but when he looked at the slides that all changed. The NFl asked Michigan University to run tests in hopes of proving Bennet wrong, but they found that Bennet was right all along. The NFL finally agreed to take precautions. They put up posters in the locker room telling the players to get checked out when they receive a blow to the head. They even started giving fines to players for “devastating hits” and “head shots” .The fans of the NFl did not like the rule because they thought that it became too boring and weak. On April 26, 2010, Owen Thomas, a 21 year old defensive end for the University of Pennsylvania, hangs himself. Thomas was the youngest person diagnosed with CTE. Bennet then discovers that it may not be the big “ knock out” hits that give a person CTE, but the little small hits that no one thinks about. While everything was going on with the NFL, Bennet’s father died. He decided not to bring Prema, Ashely or their 3 year old boy to Nigeria. The NHI replaced the old MTBI committee. They came and took a brain from Bennet that he was supposed to autopsy and later they received a $30 million dollar donation from the NFL. After Bennet’s father’s funeral and Bennet, instead of his mother, threw a rose on his coffin instead of dirt , he came back to America and began writing a letter to the pope.