Location: a Live NACDL Virtual EventDates: Runs weekly on Thursdays from January 28 – February 18, 2021Cost: Free Program Description: With opioid-related deaths devastating communities across the country, many legislatures, prosecutors, and law-enforcement officers are choosing to treat these accidental overdose deaths as homicides. Despite the fact that there is no empirical evidence to suggest that such prosecutions stem …
Death Investigation
Defending Drug Overdose Homicides Training
Live webinar, Sponsored by NACDL
Forensic ‘expert’ who performed illegal autopsies without a medical degree – including on Michael Brown – and was accused of stealing a body and a brain is indicted on federal wire fraud charges
Lots of Drugs, Lax Oversight: Former SF Medical Examiner Staffers Say Lab Analyst’s Meth Arrest ‘Just the Tip of the Iceberg’
Forensic Botanists: The Science of Using Plants to Find Bodies
OSAC Registry Approved Standards
The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Evidence (OSAC) develops documentary standards for forensics through a standards developing organization or other consensus-based process that allows for participation and comment from relevant stakeholders. Standards under consideration as well as approved standards are available in the OSAC Registry. Standards are being developed for each forensic discipline.
AAFS Standards Board Documents
The American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board develops documentary standards for forensics through a consensus process, involving participation by all directly and materially affected persons. The standards that have been published are available on the ASB website. Standards are being developed for each forensic discipline.
As George Floyd Died, Officer Wondered About “Excited Delirium”
Amsterdam Scientists Develop New Method to Determine Time of Death at Crime Scene
George Floyd Family to Release Results of Own Autopsy
Forensic Anthropologists Provide Fire Investigation Training to Federal, State, Local Agencies
Piled Bodies, Overflowing Morgues: Inside America’s Autopsy Crisis
Forensic Epidemiology: Monitoring Fatal Drug Overdose Trends
The Forensic Technology Center of Excellence is offering this free webinar program. Given the vital role of medical examiners and coroners (ME/C) in recognizing emerging trends in drug overdose deaths, partnering epidemiologists with ME/C offices can greatly enhance the utility of the significant volume of data generated by medicolegal death investigation. Epidemiologists from three unique …
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Chief medical examiner ‘in awe’ of DNA error, promises cross-contamination was one-off
What records are available in a death investigation case?
Attorneys have asked me what discovery should be available from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in cases where an autopsy was performed by that office. The Autopsy Report is a public record. It can be requested through the OCME website, or it can be provided through discovery. Photos, videos, or audio recordings of …
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