Newport Daily News NEWPORT — The defense attorney demonstrated a stabbing motion for the court as he cross-examined the state assistant medical examiner. Joseph Voccola brought his fist, clutching an imaginary knife, under his throat. He wanted to make clear the stab wound in the decedent’s neck was, in state assistant medical examiner Ariel Goldschimdt’s opinion, consistent with a downward motion, not an upward motion. In Superior Court on Wednesday, Goldschmidt testified his assessment of the stab wound in 22-year-old Maximus Julian’s neck “appeared to be downward, forward and leftward.” Of the three stab wounds Julian suffered after a fight at a short-term rental property on Thames Street over Memorial Day weekend, the stab wound in his neck was, in Goldschmidt’s opinion, the most severe.