riday, April 16, 2010
Autopsy reports used to reveal incompetency, corruption, but Oklahoma legislators want to stop public access to such records
- The FBI recently began investigating three post-Katrina police shootings in New Orleans because of a series published by ProPublica and others. Two experts said an autopsy report raised questions about one of the fatal shootings and its circumstances. One of the experts called the New Orleans coroner’s forensic work in the case “incomplete at best.”
- In Florida, an associate state medical examiner was found to have falsified several autopsy reports. His license to perform autopsies in Missouri had been revoked earlier because he fabricated autopsy reports there.
- In Tennessee, the state medical examiner was stripped of his job and later his medical license after two investigations concluded he had botched autopsies and lied on some autopsy reports. In one case, for example, he concluded a man died of multiple stab wounds but another forensic pathologist later said the wounds were “cuts from a glass table that the deceased fell on when he died.” In another, he determined a death was caused by sudden-infant death syndrome but a review of the autopsy found the child died of acute cocaine intoxication.
- In Texas, a former medical examiner was convicted of falsifying autopsies in three counties.
The legislation would close access to “information contained in an autopsy report providing the ‘manner of death’ as homicide, unknown or pending until discoverable under law.”
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AxXiom
My name is Kaye Beach and I live in Central Oklahoma. I began my blog site to share information and ideas with others who are also interested in keeping an eye on our government and making a positive impact on policy.... The idea that “everything has changed” since 9 11 must be challenged because our government has used this notion as license to run amuck... The principles of individual liberty and personal responsibility are enduring and required for our personal satisfaction as well as for the success of our nation. But right now the assaults on our legal and natural rights seem to come one right after another prompting many to wonder where it will end. The answer depends on us.
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