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Los Angeles County Medical Examiner Building in 2008. The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner (“DMEC”, formerly the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner and Department of Coroner) was created in its present form on December 17, 1920, by an ordinance approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although it has existed in some form since the appointment of the ...
To supplement these figures, we scoured news reports and press releases, gathered official records, filed public records requests, and called hundreds of jails. When news reports omitted details like the date of arrest or official cause of death, reporters requested that information, either from the jail or the office of the medical examiner ...
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation staff routinely report people in their custody to ICE, according to public records obtained by the ACLU and released in a new report.
In addition to performing law enforcement and corrections roles, the department performs the functions of the coroner's office and marshal's office. In its coroner function, the department is responsible for recovering deceased persons within the county and conducting autopsies. When California reorganized its judicial system in the early 21st ...
Image credits: Jack Mitchell The new witnesses came forward after the case was reopened in 2011 and the Los Angeles County coroner changed the cause of death from “accidental drowning” to ...
Thomas Tsunetomi Noguchi (野口 恒富, Noguchi Tsunetomi, born January 4, 1927) is the former chief medical examiner-coroner for Los Angeles County.Popularly known as the "coroner to the stars", [citation needed] Noguchi determined the cause of death in many high-profile cases in Hollywood during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Matthew Perry’s death has been confirmed by the Los Angeles coroner’s office. According to the county’s medical examiner’s website, Perry died at his home on Saturday, October 28, at the ...
The autopsy report described Robinson's death 15 minutes after suffering a severe spinal cord injury [4] and an atlas luxation, [13] which is a dislocation or separation of the skull base from the atlas bone, the first bone of the neck (spinal column). γ. The forensic doctor made the following forensic observations in the official autopsy report: