CopyCited 40 times | Published | Supreme Court of Florida | 2002 WL 54414
...nce." The defendant cannot show bad faith on the part of the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office when someone, presumably Dr. Wood, the Assistant Medical Examiner at the time, destroyed the washings and swab. Before *1243 1981, Florida Statute 406.13 (1973) did not even require the medical examiner's office to maintain such specimens for any length of time....
...It merely provided that "any evidence or specimen coming into the possession of said medical examiner in connection with any investigation or autopsy may be retained by him or be delivered to one of the law enforcement officers assigned to the investigation of the death." F.S. [§]406.13 (1973) (emphasis mine)....
...ained for one year, and afterwards at the discretion of the medical examiners" (emphasis mine) was included. The 1981 Amendment to the Administrative Code is still in effect today. See Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 11G-2.004(1)(h) and (4)(b) (2001); F.S. § 406.13 (2001)....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...Failure to do so is a first degree
misdemeanor. Id.
“Upon receipt of such notification . . . the district medical examiner . . . shall
examine or otherwise take charge of the dead body and shall notify the appropriate
law enforcement agency.” Fla. Stat. § 406.13....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...Failure to do so is a first degree
misdemeanor. Id.
“Upon receipt of such notification . . . the district medical examiner . . . shall
examine or otherwise take charge of the dead body and shall notify the appropriate
law enforcement agency.” Fla. Stat. § 406.13....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...Failure to do so is a first degree
misdemeanor. Id.
“Upon receipt of such notification . . . the district medical examiner . . . shall
examine or otherwise take charge of the dead body and shall notify the appropriate
law enforcement agency.” Fla. Stat. § 406.13....
CopyPublished | Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
...Failure to do so is a first degree
misdemeanor. Id.
“Upon receipt of such notification . . . the district medical examiner . . . shall
examine or otherwise take charge of the dead body and shall notify the appropriate
law enforcement agency.” Fla. Stat. § 406.13....
CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1978).
Published | Florida Attorney General Reports
or otherwise take charge of the dead body. Section
406.13, F. S. When the cause of death has been established
CopyPublished | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal | 2015 Fla. App. LEXIS 12848, 2015 WL 5051187
...Failure to do so is a first degree misdemeanor. Id. “Upon receipt of such notification ... the district medical examiner ... shall examine or otherwise take charge of the dead body and shall notify the appropriate law enforcement agency.” Fla. Stat. § 406.13 ....
...cause and manner of death or the details of the body that lead to that conclusion. 9 Florida law requires the medical examiner to memorialize in writing his or her findings “as to the cause of said death” and provide them to the state attorney. § 406.13, .Fla....
