Medical Examiner's Offices in the Spotlight

All across Texas, prosecutors rely on the Medical Examiner to determine whether a person died as the result of a crime or not. But what happens when the Medical Examiner's Office is doing more than twice the maximum number of examinations recommended, is inadequately staffed with people that are improperly trained and does not maintain an arm's length relationship with law enforcement.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram has begun exposing some of the fraud that those of us in the criminal defense practice have long known about. When the Medical Examiner's Office is no longer neutral, but a pawn of law enforcement, how can we be sure that the results are truly based in science and not at the suggestion of the police?

Read about the interesting story here.