Apparently, the surgery preceded the attack. It may be hard to say if he would have lived absent the attack, but it is possible that the attack did not contribute (significantly?) to his death.
My legal training consists of watching Law and Order, but as I understand it, if a person dies as a result of a medical mistake made in treating an attack, the attacker is still guilty of murder. If someone gives you a black eye, and the doctor in treating your black eye kills you, the doctor is guilty of malpractice, but the attacker is guilty of murder. The coroner is claiming that that is not the case here.
Thanks for the clarification.
No the attacker intended to give you a black eye.
He didn’t intend to kill you.
Probbly be murder 2nd degree maybe.
Different rules obviously. Thanks eric holdem.