Look, if most of a county is known to be corrupt, and Pinellas County is thoroughly corrupt, than why should I believe anything that comes out of there? This case is totally incestuous. Who is investigating this - the Sheriff's office? Mike Schiavo's now deceased mother in law (by his common law wife) worked there, and now he does. He got his job without an interview apparently. The nursing home director is under investigation for misuse of funds, and I believe the home is under federal investigation in general (again, I'm working from memory and there's a lot of detail). There were connections between the pro-Schiavo lawyers and the nursing home. Judge Greer has been accused of shady real estate deals prior to becoming a judge. THe former ME prior to this one was forced out because of changing her analysis under pressure.
With a whole pattern of wide spread corruption, incompetence and malfeasance that I have seen in Pinellas County, why on earth would I believe any one sided report that came out of there without independent corroboration? That would be foolhardy. The ME blew it by not having some independent party there are the autopsy to corroborate his findings. AS it is, he's just another Pinellas County official, who may or may not be honest, or may or may not be operating under HIS OWN BIAS. I'm not just automatically gonna believe him because he's the ME. No more than I would have automatically believed his predecessor.
The ME is a state employee.
Your basic premise is still flawed...
"AS it is, he's just another Pinellas County official, who may or may not be honest, or may or may not be operating under HIS OWN BIAS."
So because he does not come up with conlusions that satify YOU --- he's corrupt also. Come up with some kind of plausible explaination of WHY all of these people would risk their careers and freedom.