Medical Examiner
It
is the role of the medical examiner to identify an approximate time that the
individual is said to have died. The
medical examiner will have the role and responsibility of using their in depth
knowledge of the processes involved in decomposition to officially document/
record an approximate time. The service
of a medical examiner would only be required when the criminal investigation
involved an individual who is deceased.
The medical examiner would be called to a scene involving a suspected
homicide, for example, in order to identify an approximate time of death. The results obtained will then be
subsequently presented to the detectives working on the criminal
investigation. The medical examiner may
also be called to court to verify their findings to the judge and jury.
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