Posted on 08/21/2014 10:30:59 AM PDT by airedale
I think that the second and subsequent autopsies have to rely on the first for certain results, and are limited in some ways because there was a first to start with.
See:
What a Second Autopsy Can -- and Can't -- Reveal
Because timeliness is critical, if you suspect foul play in the first autopsy, do not trust the first medical examiner or would like a second opinion for quality assurance, you must make the choice of whether or not to have a second autopsy performed fairly quickly after the first autopsy, and usually without its full results.
Alabama forensic pathologist Dr. Jim Lauridson, who is often called on to perform second autopsies, says that a second autopsy very often finds information not discovered in the first autopsy. Even so, he says there are certain limitations because organs have often already been removed and dissected, and the fluids necessary for an evaluation are now no longer available.
Additionally, certain tissues can be retained by the pathologist at the time of the first autopsy and may not be available for examination. But a second autopsy often looks at parts of the body that were not examined in the first, and the incorporation of its results, with those of the first autopsy and other available medical and investigative records, can depict a far more thorough and comprehensive picture of the cause and manner of death.
I think it means fire arm residue.
He is, but did he do the autopsy or just review and sign off on the product of the other “pathologist” who turned out to be a glorified lab tech. If he signed off without seeing the autopsy did he know t h e guy who did it and his body of work well enough to know he did the job properly.
Did they have the first psychologists notes? I don’t know. They weren’t asked and somehow I doubt it. They probably won’t get it until all the tests are done
Baden is a scrupulous and serious professional with a reputation to protect. I doubt that he will perform or embrace slipshod work.
If it is easily washed off and would be found mostly on the clothes which the defense didn’t get to examine means that the lack o f residue didn’t mean that he was shot at long range. It tells you nothing one way or the other. Powder burns would tell you the gun was really close.
As for the gun going off in the car we really have no info. All we have is the hearsay that the two were wrestling for the gun who k e the office was in the car and the gun went off. We don’t know if that’s true, whose finger was on t h e trigger and why the gun discharged. The officers finger could be in the trigger guard and Brown is pulling on the gun or the officers finger squeezed the trigger. Then again Brown could have pulled the trigger on purpose or accidentally. The trigger could have had the trigger pulled when it got hung up on something in the car when the two were fighting about it.
Yep he is, but the questions still stands did he do the actual autopsy and if he didn’t is he satisfied with the work the guy does. Their website looks neat, but a lot of doctors, M.E’ s don’t like him or respect him. Baden needs to be asked by a reporter about those issues. If you go back and watch his press conference his report was shirt and sweet where the other guy went on to answer the questions and make claims. Watch Baden’ s expression.
I’ll take a look at the press conference. Baden has had some controversies and missteps, but I doubt that his conclusions in the Brown case will be at odds with the pending official determinations.
Neither do I. But right now it’s a PR campaign. Watch how careful Baden is and then watch the other guy. Big difference.
Parks and Crump — whose Tallahassee office is within a mile of my location — were looking to feed the lynch mob atmosphere. On the whole, the autopsy they contrived failed in that purpose, due in part to Baden’s caution.
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