Ones looking for a cause

Usage examples of coroners.

Many elected coroners in other states were funeral home directors, which at best is a conflict of interest.

Then there are states that have medical examiners in some cities and coroners in others.

A growing awareness of the importance of competent postmortem ex­aminations and handling of evidence added further value and prestige to the office of coroner, and in 1888 - when the Ripper murders began - a governmental act mandated that death investigation findings by coroners would no longer render any sort of financial benefit to the crown.

In an 1854 treatise on the office and duties of coroners, it was noted that while it may be illegal to publish evidence that could prove important in the trial, these facts were routinely published anyway and benefitted the public.

Some cities or states continue to have elected coroners who go to the scenes but do not perform the autopsies because they are not forensic pathologists or even physicians.

A growing awareness of the importance of competent postmortem examinations and handling of evidence added further value and prestige to the office of coroner, and in 1888 - when the Ripper murders began - a governmental act mandated that death investigation findings by coroners would no longer render any sort of financial benefit to the crown.

You tuck the horror of the images away in some part of your mind where police and coroners put ugly things, and your pulse pounds with impatience to get the next detail, and the next, and the next.

When the answer can mean something as important as whether or not Grandpa Jacques gets buried in the hallowed ground of the churchyard, suicide notes have a way of vanishing, bodies get re-arranged, coroners and law officers get bribed or simply look the other way out of respect for the family.

Now she massaged them one at a time while she read the coroners reports on Aaron Harper and Eric Paltrow, the two dead, little boys whom Jeffreys may have erroneously been convicted of killing.

The old coroners face had turned scarlet as he mumbled something about doing his job in private.

The coroners surgical wounds precise slices and cutsdisgusted him, as did the puncture marks he, himself, had administered.

Most forensic pathologists, particularly ones with her status, look down on coroners, think they're all funeral home directors who got voted into office.

That used to be the coroners parking place, but not so long ago, the coroner-guess which one, and there's only one-complained it was way too narrow, and he'd be goddamned if he was parking there.

Lanier parks in a tow-away zone and tosses an Officer of the Coroners red metal plate on the dash, as if lunch has suddenly turned into a crime scene.

And coroners must fill in the certificate died of malnutrition because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.