Sentences with phrase «death investigation»

In her view, only trained specialists should oversee death investigations.

In its 2009 report, the academy called for the creation of uniform federal standards for death investigation and recommended making certification mandatory for doctors working in the field of forensic pathology.

Some experts put little weight on board certification, but many leaders in the field say it's a critical element — that you can't raise the overall quality of death investigation unless the people who do autopsy work are subject to consistent professional standards.

Reviews the current literature on the epidemiology of fatal child abuse, the role of child death investigations in ascertaining the causes of death, the causes of child abuse fatalities, and current prevention efforts.

Even at some of the nation's more robust death investigation units, staffers worry that they do too few autopsies to fulfill their watchdog role.

It could have to do with better death investigation or stricter adherence to SIDS definition.»

You have been educated on what the current scientific research (and many infant death investigations) have demonstrated the correlation of bed - sharing and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or Sudden Unexplained Infant Death.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced Oneida County's Regional Medical Examiner Project is moving forward with the beginning of the process to hire Assistant Forensic Investigators who will provide forensic death investigation services within Oneida County on behalf of the Onondaga County Medical Examiner.

The 2009 report by the National Academy of Sciences, a comprehensive overview of defects in the nation's death investigation system authored by more than 50 luminaries in the field, recommended phasing out coroners and replacing them with medical examiners.

The two are trying to provide more accurate information in death investigations by studying how vulture behavior, combined with weather and geography, can modify human remains.

«Sensitive cases, such as police shootings and police encounter deaths... require an unbiased death investigation that is clearly independent of law enforcement,» the NAS report stated.

«Lots of very bad things happen if death investigation isn't carried out competently.»

The qualifications of those who oversee death investigations vary widely from state to state — and, in some areas, from county to county.

The findings, described online in the journal Forensic Science International, will assist law enforcement officials investigating overdose and death investigations involving illicit substances.

What You Need to Know About the Monster Energy Drink Death Investigation»

Dr. Victor Weedn, the Maryland assistant medical examiner, said basic misunderstandings about the significance of death investigation have made it a hard sell.

Area residents say they heard a flurry of shots overnight near the scene of a death investigation that started Tuesday morning.

The Greenville Police Department will be handling the death investigation.

Chicago police are conducting a death investigation into the Friday morning drowning of a woman in a Park District swimming pool on the Far South Side, officials said.

Police have classified the case as a death investigation.

Promptly complete a death investigation report on all medical examiner jurisdiction cases to allow for accurate and timely completion of death certificates and preliminary autopsy reports.

These courses include criminal law, criminal evidence and procedures, introduction to forensic science, crime scene investigation, DNA and fingerprint analysis, death investigation, firearms and tool - markings identification, toxicology, and an internship at a forensic crime laboratory or criminal investigation division of a police department.

Some death investigation units do a commendable job.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D - Vt., recently introduced legislation aimed at upgrading the quality of forensic evidence, but his bill would impose no new requirements on the doctors at the center of death investigations.

«The coolest thing about my job is that my death investigation starts with a phone call from either the police or a hospital and at the end of the day, my cause or manner of death could be a 5 - micron thick section under my microscope,» he says.

To date, Mitchell has performed more than 1300 autopsy examinations, overseen about 30,000 death investigations, and provided expert testimony in countless court cases.

Catch Me by Lisa Gardner (Penguin / Dutton; Brilliance Audio; Thorndike Large Print) finds Detective D. D. Warren faced with a client who believes she will be murdered in four days, and she wants D. D. to handle the death investigation.

Ash Rashid is a former homicide detective who can't stand the thought of handling another death investigation.

The program provides an outstanding opportunity for college students to gain practical, hands - on experience in the field of Death Investigations.

Four persons have been arrested in connection with the death investigation of 36 year old George Hyde.

We say «death investigation» because that is how investigators are treating the matter but from the details we will share with you in a few, it has all the signs of a fatal and brutal machete attack.

As a lawyer who represents families in inquests, death investigations and victims of crime, I understand the need for medical evidence.

The Sheriff's Office is conducting a death investigation, but said the incident appears to be accidental.

A death investigation is underway after a man on a yacht named «Miami Vice» died in the waters near Monument Island, authorities said.

Assists in processing evidence, including searching for, identifying, collecting and processing physical evidence from property crimes, death investigations and personal crimes

Supported engineering department with product research and development and also conducted all death investigations to rule out product liability.