Criteria for Medicolegal Autopsy
During this interim period, while we continue to search for our new forensic examiner, priority for
medicolegal autopsies is being given to SIDS cases, homicides and charred remains. Other cases may be accepted for autopsy,
depending on circumstances and the county coroner's findings
- All gunshot wound or other firearm injury deaths, regardless of manner
- Suspected drug overdoses
- Industrial and farm accidents
- Deaths in police custody, in state institutions, or in pursuit of by law enforcement
- Fire related deaths
- Unexpected child and infant deaths
- Deaths with criminal charges pending or with suspicious circumstances
- Traffic fatalities where criminal charges are pending
- Traffic fatalities without obvious death causing injuries
- Deaths that occur at work sites
- Victims of drowning or suspected exposure
- Persons with questionable identity
- Deaths where the cause and manner of death are in question
- Suspicious skeletal or near skeletal remains
- All Suicides, by any means or method
- All homicides, or deaths related to homicides, recent or old
- All underaged, unlicensed vehicle operator(s)