Closing arguments are scheduled for this week in the preliminary exam of state health director Nick Lyon.
Lyon has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the deaths of two Flint-area men from Legionnaires disease in during the Flint
water crises.
Lawyers for Lyon have asked the district court judge hearing the case to strike testimony given by an expert witness who testified for the prosecution.
They say the testimony of Doctor Joel Kahn, a cardiologist from Metro Detroit, is inadmissible because he doesn’t have training in dealing with Legionnaires Disease.
Doctor Jeffrey Band, an infectious disease doctor who works at Beaumont hospital in Royal Oak, had contradicted Kahn’s analysis in a March hearing.
Lyon’s lawyers say that without proof that the victims died of Legionnaires Disease, there is no grounds for an involuntary manslaughter charge.