Posted on 03/27/2005 5:31:49 PM PST by eartotheground
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.
History.--s. 6, ch. 70-232; s. 26, ch. 73-334; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 1, ch. 87-166; s. 29, ch. 97-103; s. 3, ch. 98-253.
http://www.theempirejournal.com/327902_law_enforcement_officers.htm
so which of those listed reasons apply?
I don't see one that triggers an autopsy...
You can count on Judge Greer stifling any such effort.
Hmmm, I wonder if the coronor has any ties to Felos or the Judge?
cremation...besides JB can mandate a autopsy through the DCI
section (c) , perhaps ?
Let me guess. The medical examiner of the district and the state attorney are both on the board of the hospice in which Terri is being held.
State law also provides for the protection and removal of Terri due to neglect and abuse, but it is being ignored.
If a person dies under a doctor's care in a hospital environment, no autopsy is required in Florida.
exactly.
(c) When a body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at sea.
1,7,8,(c)
Of course an autopsy is not required. This statute simply lays out the grounds for ordering one.
Since when has lawed mattered to this Judge?
And no autopsy is required"
"make or have performed such examinations, investigations, and autopsies as he or she shall deem necessary>
He makes an "investigation." Case closed.
It seems like too many laws, legal and moral, have been broken already.
The legal requirement for a autopsy...well, that'll be thrown to the side as well.
From what I have read on the net, Judge Greer's wife is on one of the boards or committees of this particular hospice which Terri is in
Michael plans to have her cremated.
This small town, mutual back scratching justice makes some of the 60's Southern Justice stories seem downright above board in their administration of justice practices.
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