autopsy
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Appeals court rejects notion that coroners’ conclusions preempt other evidence of murder
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that an “undetermined” cause of death from a county coroner does not preclude prosecutors from presenting their own evidence that the death was actually a homicide. In the case before the Court of Appeals, Denver jurors convicted Robert W. Feldman in 2022 of murdering his wife, Stacy Feldman. He is…
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CPR sues coroner for refusing to release amended autopsy of Elijah McClain
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Colorado Public Radio filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Adams County coroner for refusing to release an amended autopsy of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after being violently restrained by police and sedated in 2019. Colorado Public Radio reported that coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan changed the official autopsy report for McClain after receiving…
