Oneida County, New York, debates continuing its elected coroner system, and a California grandmother’s sentence is commuted in a misdiagnosed shaken baby syndrome case. Here’s this week’s round up of forensic news:
Oneida County, New York, is considering
replacing its coroner offices
with a county medical examiner’s office due to administrative failures, including missing reports on prison deaths and failing to pay funeral directors for months.
Governor Jerry Brown
commuted the sentence of Shirley Smith
. New challenges to the original autopsy results of Smith’s grandson raised by Deputy Medical Examiner Dr. James Ribe played an important role in her clemency petition.
Researchers in Spain and New York are
investigating the use of a special kind of spectroscopy
to characterize gunshot residue patterns.
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