9:45 a.m.—Central Time

Defense attorney Ashley Benedik, who represents the nurse, points out some errors in Dr. Turner’s notes. Specifically, she points out that after Turner spoke to the nurse, she wrote down her name as Christian Smith instead of Kristin Schmidt.

Waylon Graham, who represents drill instructor Charles Helms Jr., asks Turner how many times she had toured a boot camp after her 13 months as the DJJ medical director. She says she had not visited a single boot camp.

Earlier this morning, Turner testified that sickle cell anemia would have disqualified Anderson from coming to the boot camp. Sickle cell trait, however, would not have disqualified him.

In opening statements, one of the defense attorneys, James White Jr., said that none of the drill instructors knew Anderson had sickle cell trait and, had they known, Anderson should not have been admitted to the camp.

Under cross examination of Turner, Graham points out to her that the Bay County boot camp might have had more strict medical guidelines than the DJJ standard guidelines. Turner acknowledges that she does not know if the Bay County boot camp had a policy to disqualify youths with sickle cell trait.

Graham questions why the Department of Juvenile Justice does not screen all incoming juveniles for sickle cell.