Michael Brown's autopsy: What it can (and can't) tell us

Tom Joad · #1 08-21-2014, 05:15 PM

Not much beyond what we already know.

Shot six times, died of gunshot wounds, that will be $10,000. Will that be cash, check, or Credit Card?

My prediction: It's going to come down to the cops word vs. the eyewitnesses from the community.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-...-cant-tell-us/

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Autopsies completed on the body of black teenager Michael Brown have failed to reveal exactly what happened on Aug. 9 when authorities said white police officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot the boy in Ferguson, Missouri. That's because autopsies can only expose so much, say experts.

Shows like "CSI" portray forensic pathologists as Sherlock Holmes-like figures, gathering evidence of death from the most obscure clues. In reality, autopsies are extremely useful -- but they can't answer every question about a suspicious death. In about 3 percent of cases, medical examiners can't identify a cause of death at all, according to American Physiological Society researchers. These deaths include cases of people with a history of drug abuse, and infants who died without a clear reason (referred to as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS).

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