No autopsy.
I don't think they have a choice whether to do an autopsy. Florida State Statue 406.11 states:
406.11 Examinations, investigations, and autopsies.--
(1) In any of the following circumstances involving the death of a human being, the medical examiner of the district in which the death occurred or the body was found shall determine the cause of death and shall, for that purpose, make or have performed such examinations, investigations, and autopsies as he or she shall deem necessary or as shall be requested by the state attorney:
(a) When any person dies in the state:
1. Of criminal violence.
2. By accident.
3. By suicide.
4. Suddenly, when in apparent good health.
5. Unattended by a practicing physician or other recognized practitioner.
6. In any prison or penal institution.
7. In police custody.
8. In any suspicious or unusual circumstance.
9. By criminal abortion.
10. By poison.
11. By disease constituting a threat to public health.
12. By disease, injury, or toxic agent resulting from employment.
(b) When a dead body is brought into the state without proper medical certification.
(c) When a body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea.
(2)(a) The district medical examiner shall have the authority in any case coming under subsection (1) to perform, or have performed, whatever autopsies or laboratory examinations he or she deems necessary and in the public interest to determine the identification of or cause or manner of death of the deceased or to obtain evidence necessary for forensic examination.
(b) The Medical Examiners Commission shall adopt rules, pursuant to chapter 120, providing for the notification of the next of kin that an investigation by the medical examiner's office is being conducted. A medical examiner may not retain or furnish any body part of the deceased for research or any other purpose which is not in conjunction with a determination of the identification of or cause or manner of death of the deceased or the presence of disease or which is not otherwise authorized by this chapter, part X of chapter 732, or chapter 873, without notification of and approval by the next of kin.
(3) The Medical Examiners Commission may adopt rules incorporating by reference parameters or guidelines of practice or standards of conduct relating to examinations, investigations, or autopsies performed by medical examiners.
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THAT!!!
I had been wondering what the laws concerning autopsies where cremation is involved in FLA.
Now, lets see if this BLACK AND WHITE law is upheld, or if, as we have seen in other cases involving laws that are black and white, there is an attempt to weasal out of it. I just see Greer and some judges: "We know her cause of death, so we don't need no stinking autopsy..."
I appreciate the information about autopsies especially in relation to bodies to be cremated, BUT
you do realize that this judge and everyone else that has had anything to do with this case, DO NOT FOLLOW THE LAW OR RULES--
What do you want to bet that there will be NO autopsy, and if the parents file papers to make sure their is one, the judge will deny the request?