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You cannot investigate, prosecute or defend a case that you don’t fully understand. Forensic pathology is a broad medical subspecialty that requires a mastery well beyond the time a law enforcement officer or attorney can invest one case at-a-time.

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“The performance of a competent autopsy is mandatory whenever a death, whether resultant from injury, disease, or a combination of both, contains some element of actual or potential forensic dispute… The key word in the forgoing thesis is competent, i.e., complete, professionally performed, and accurately observed. A sloppily done, incomplete autopsy is worse than none because it leads all too frequently to erroneous conclusions. Such conclusions, based as they are on the presumably reliable and rational fact-finding procedure of the postmortem examination, are notoriously difficult to overcome or eradicate. The tragic consequence of a poorly performed, partial or superficial autopsy is an unjust or unrealistic verdict, a flaw in what should be the seamless garment of Justice”.

-- Lester Adelson, MD

Adelson L. Symposium on autopsy and the law. The anatomy of justice. Bull N Y Acad Med1971 Jul;47(7):745-57

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Dr. Moritz identified the classic mistakes in forensic pathology in 1956… are they still being made in 2023?

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Mistake of not being aware of the medicolegal autopsy.

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Mistake of performing an incomplete autopsy.

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Mistake of permitting the body to be embalmed before performing a medicolegal autopsy.

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Mistake of regarding a mutilated or decomposed body unsuitable for autopsy.

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Mistakes resulting from nonrecognition or misinterpretation of postmortem changes.

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Mistake of failing to make an adequate examination and description of external abnormalities.

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Mistake of confusing the objective with the subjective sections of the protocol.

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The mistake of not examining the body at the scene of the crime.

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Mistake of substituting intuition for scientifically defensible interpretation.

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Mistake of not making adequate photographs of the evidence.

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Mistake of permitting the value of the protocol to be jeopardized by minor errors.

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Mistake of talking too soon, too much and to the wrong people.
MORITZ AR. Classical mistakes in forensic pathology. Am J Clin Pathol. 1956 Dec;26(12):1383-97. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/26.12.1383. PMID: 13394547.