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 for wrongful death civil action?
Section 2a sounds right.I wonder if the ME has the stones,he/she appears to have the authority.
You are absolutely right, and why some people continue to ignore this angle baffles me. I can understand people being of different minds on a lot of the issues here, but this is not one of them. Cronyism, collusion, conspiracy... call it what you will, but this is not justice, but rather something that an HONEST FEDERAL JUDGE would be all over.
I can dream.
(At least until Greer, Whittemore and assorted assclowns of the 11th rule that I can't.)
This is pretty silly. We all know that there's not going to be an autopsy. There really isn't a need for one because everyone will know the cause of death.
An autopsy at this point would be a real waste of taxpayers money because the only reason anyone would want one done on her would be to satisfy the tin-foil hat crowd.
Have to be a Governors directive for it to be assured
Statute for wrongful death civil action?
What I do know is I've never been as angry with any person I do not know personally as I am now at M Sciavo. His gratuitous pursuit of this matter and his cruelty to the Schindler family enrages me. His selfish refusal to bow out and give his ex-Wife into the care of her family using the outrageous excuse of his love for her is personally offensive to me in the extreme. Pure scum, deserving of serious repercussions for his behavior IMO.
Examination of the bone injuries in more detail, ACCURATE analysis of brain and heart damage with potential cause....Yea sounds like a waste to me
The actually death was perpetrated up untill the last hearing of the last appeal, the abuse would have just been a part of the entire "wrongful act"
What makes you think they don't have a medical examiner in their pocket as well as doctors, legislators, lawyers, judges and hospice administrators? Death is a lucrative busiess in Florida, and a lot of interests have a piece of it. The laws that don't serve the pro-death agenda are disposed of or ignored.
This is pretty silly. We all know that there's not going to be an autopsy. There really isn't a need for one because everyone will know the cause of death.
That may be true but I know that the coroner still has the option to demand an autopsy.
Been there, done that...
Don't anyone hold their breath.
The actually death was perpetrated up untill the last hearing of the last appeal, the abuse would have just been a part of the entire "wrongful act"
Since we all know that the cause of death will be starvation, there'll be no need to hold an autopsy.
There is no medical evidence to be gathered in that case, any violence perpetrated on her in the past if beyond the statute of limitations, and the court does not consider Michael to be a liar.
Again, an autopsy would be a waste of time and money. The man should be allowed to cremate his wife, post haste, when she dies, if that's what he wants to do.
Give it up already, little Jeb has been bitchslapped into his place by the courts; the courts in Floriduh rule now, accounting for at least two of the three branches of Floriduh's government.
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