Coroners' interested advocacy: understanding wrongful accusations and convictions.

From: Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice | Date: September 1, 2006| Author: Kramar, Kirsten | Copyright information

The problems of forensic pathologists' court testimony leading to wrongful convictions in cases of infant death, especially where mothers are charged with the offence, and of this testimony possibly involving gross distortion of scientific findings arise, in part, through a systematic misunderstanding by the law, and by judges and jurors, of forensic pathologists', and especially coroners', attitude toward their professional obligations. The law takes forensic pathological and coronial test...

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