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.
statute of limitations issue?
One of two things will happen:
1) The body will be cremated with no autopsy
2) The autopsy will be performed by either hospice or Pinellas County personnel and report nothing out of the ordinary, but no details will be made available.
Nothing in Florida will happen unles Judge Greer permits it. Events have proven that he is the supreme authority in that state.
What about for historic medical scientific future RESEARCH records?
Both unusual circumstances and cremation apply. The husband wats to cremate immediately.
I wonder if hospice "enrollment" will dive or climb after this?
Judgenfuhrer Greer: "We may burn her alive after torturing her by starvation.
Congress, Jeb Bush, and Congressal subpoenas aren't even worth a bucket of warm spit."
The operant question is "Does judge Greer allow an autopsy" because he is after all the most powerful man in floriduh.
s.406.11(1)(b)
Judge Greer belongs in jail
what happened to loose lips sink ships?
:-(
Not neccessarily, the state Med examiner can be called in by JB
my bad s 406.11.(1)(c)
statute of limitations issue?
never for homicide
Not neccessarily, the state Med examiner can be called in by JB
Glad to see we have a clairvoyant in the group, I'll wait and see
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