Eduardo Lee Hoover, Junior, age 38, sat in his pick-up truck, boxed in by four police cars after a chase in Washington County, PA. One officer shot into the front of the vehicle, trying to disable it. Office Tyler Evans, behind the truck, fatally shot Hoover in the back of the head and neck. Hoover,…
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Cause & Manner: Who Signs a Death Certificate?
Who signs a death certificate depends: was the death due to natural causes or not? Where did the person die? What’s the state law?
The Role of the Coroner in Court: Part 2
Why We Need Independent Coroners “Sensitive cases, such as police shootings and police-encounter deaths, jail and prison deaths, deaths in public institutions, and others, require an unbiased death investigation that is clearly independent of law enforcement.” So read a conclusion in the National Research Council’s 2009 report on Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States….