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The application of medical science to the investigation of crimes, including the analysis of evidence and the determination of cause of death.
Forensic interpretation of ’s wounds since his December 11, 1964 death has remained contested: the accepted testimony that the motel manager’s shots were defensive and consistent with a justifiable ho...
Two publicly challenged the official suicide ruling in ’s August 2019 death: board‑certified pathologist , hired by Epstein’s brother and attorneys, who argued certain neck injuries were more consiste...
Defense teams confronting medical examiner findings typically attack admissibility under the Confrontation Clause, the medical-legal vocabulary that may stray into legal conclusions, the scientific ce...
are central determinants of how a projectile produces and alters entrance and exit wounds: intact, non-deforming .30-06-type projectiles tend to produce relatively neat entrance defects and are more l...
legally must use a board‑certified pathologist for autopsies, but whether that pathologist is a forensic specialist or a general (anatomic) pathologist is decided case‑by‑case based on statutory trigg...
New York courts treat competing forensic pathologist testimony as expert evidence subject to gatekeeping, adversarial testing, and jury weighting rather than as dispositive truth; judges admit or excl...