Thanks for clearly showing the sequence of autopsy result events you outlined,
Thinking about the four possibilities in butterdezillion post #193, and whether that rule she mentions applied.
Could there have been confusion about jurisdiction; one person being specific and another not?
IIRC, county areas extend for some amount of miles out into the nearby water.
I remember maps of Los Angeles showing the border of L.A. county with Orange county, extending out into the water.
Kalawao County only includes the land of the Kalaupapa peninsula. Maui County includes the islands of Molokai (except for Kalawao County), Maui, Lanai, and perhaps several other smaller islands AND the waters adjacent to those islands.
HI Statute says that a person is considered dead when a qualified doctor or nurse expresses the belief that the cessation of pulse and respiration is irreversible, and the place and time of death is wherever and whenever the pulse and respiration were first both ceased.
So if she had no pulse while she was in the water it is unquestionably Maui County jurisdiction, which the MCPD confirmed by openinq a normal (non-”Outside Assistance”) case for this “death”. They later chanqed it to an “Outside Assistance” case, acknowledqinq that there was no death within their jurisdiction. And then a couple hours later they ordered an autopsy claiminq authority from HRS 841-3 which they now claim was not in effect.