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Murrow Award for investigative reporting and a Golden Mic Award from the RTNDA of Southern California.\r\n\r\nJulie began her career in journalism in 2000 as the deputy foreign editor for public radio's \u003cem>Marketplace, \u003c/em>while earning her master's degree in journalism from USC’s Annenberg School of Communication.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4baedf201468df97be97c2a9dd7585d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"@SmallRadio2","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"news","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"stateofhealth","roles":["author"]},{"site":"science","roles":["author"]}],"headData":{"title":"Julie Small | KQED","description":"KQED Contributor","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4baedf201468df97be97c2a9dd7585d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4baedf201468df97be97c2a9dd7585d0?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/jsmall"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"news","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"news_11693911":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11693911","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11693911","score":null,"sort":[1537572166000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"governor-vetoes-bill-that-sought-independence-in-death-investigations","title":"Governor Vetoes Bill That Sought Independence in Death Investigations","publishDate":1537572166,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have required six counties in California to change how they investigate sudden, suspicious or violent deaths, including deaths that happen during arrest or in jail or prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senate Bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1303\u003c/a> would have forced non-charter counties with more than 500,000 residents to establish a medical examiner’s office to investigate deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in his Sept. 18 veto \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SB-1303-Veto-Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message\u003c/a>, Brown wrote, “Counties have several options when delivering coroner services to the public. This decision is best left to the discretion of local elected officials who are in the best position to determine how their county offices are organized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, state Sen. Richard Pan, \u003ca href=\"https://sd06.senate.ca.gov/news/2018-09-19-governor-vetoes-senate-bill-1303-which-would-have-required-medical-experts-conduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded\u003c/a> Wednesday, “I am disappointed in the veto because it would have been an important step in ensuring the integrity of autopsy reports and achieving justice for people across California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In seven of California's largest counties — including San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Diego — a medical examiner, who is also a physician, investigates deaths. In the majority of other counties, that job falls to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670624/coroner-training-seeks-to-raise-standards-for-california-death-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coroner\u003c/a>, who is also the elected sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Pan, a pediatrician, believes that having the sheriff-coroner investigate deaths involving officers is a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of that, they can influence the findings of the autopsy,” Pan said. “They can even modify the reports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan introduced SB 1303 in response to accusations late last year that a county sheriff had in fact meddled in death investigations and altered findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Death Investigation Scandal in San Joaquin County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief forensic pathologist for San Joaquin County, Dr. Bennet Omalu, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused\u003c/a> Sheriff Steve Moore of overriding autopsy findings in cases where an officer of the law appeared to have killed someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu, known for his discovery of the debilitating brain disease CTE in professional football players, resigned from his position as chief forensic pathologist Dec. 4, after a decade holding the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the reasons he said he could no longer work for Moore were several instances where he had determined a person’s death was a homicide, only to watch Moore override his findings and label the death an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu testified in support of Pan's bill, which was sponsored by the California Medical Association. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.calsheriffs.org/about-us/about-cssa-our-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California State Sheriffs' Association\u003c/a>, currently led by Moore, opposed the measure as costly and unnecessary, and the California State Association of Counties objected to the measure's interference with local autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the legislation ultimately failed, San Joaquin County supervisors moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664465/san-joaquin-county-sheriff-stripped-of-role-in-death-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strip\u003c/a> the sheriff of his coroner duties and establish an independent medical examiner’s office. That effort is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11672974/sheriff-accused-of-interfering-in-death-investigations-loses-re-election-bid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost\u003c/a> his re-election in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu recently opened new \u003ca href=\"https://www.bennetomalu.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offices\u003c/a> and is providing autopsies for several local entities and expert witness testimony in cases throughout the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan plans to keep trying to improve death investigations in California. Contrary to the governor’s veto message, the senator thinks that local officials are unlikely to challenge the sheriff-coroner system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheriffs have tremendous political power in counties,” Pan said. “That’s why many counties have been very slow to address this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The bill that would have separated suspicious death investigations from county sheriffs was vetoed, despite revelations that a sheriff meddled with autopsy findings involving deaths at the hands of law enforcement.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1537573206,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":548},"headData":{"title":"Governor Vetoes Bill That Sought Independence in Death Investigations | KQED","description":"The bill that would have separated suspicious death investigations from county sheriffs was vetoed, despite revelations that a sheriff meddled with autopsy findings involving deaths at the hands of law enforcement.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11693911 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11693911","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/09/21/governor-vetoes-bill-that-sought-independence-in-death-investigations/","disqusTitle":"Governor Vetoes Bill That Sought Independence in Death Investigations","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/09/SmallSheriffCoronerVetoTCRAM180919.mp3","audioTrackLength":116,"path":"/news/11693911/governor-vetoes-bill-that-sought-independence-in-death-investigations","audioDuration":130000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have required six counties in California to change how they investigate sudden, suspicious or violent deaths, including deaths that happen during arrest or in jail or prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Senate Bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1303\u003c/a> would have forced non-charter counties with more than 500,000 residents to establish a medical examiner’s office to investigate deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in his Sept. 18 veto \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SB-1303-Veto-Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message\u003c/a>, Brown wrote, “Counties have several options when delivering coroner services to the public. This decision is best left to the discretion of local elected officials who are in the best position to determine how their county offices are organized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s author, state Sen. Richard Pan, \u003ca href=\"https://sd06.senate.ca.gov/news/2018-09-19-governor-vetoes-senate-bill-1303-which-would-have-required-medical-experts-conduct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded\u003c/a> Wednesday, “I am disappointed in the veto because it would have been an important step in ensuring the integrity of autopsy reports and achieving justice for people across California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In seven of California's largest counties — including San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Diego — a medical examiner, who is also a physician, investigates deaths. In the majority of other counties, that job falls to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670624/coroner-training-seeks-to-raise-standards-for-california-death-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coroner\u003c/a>, who is also the elected sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Pan, a pediatrician, believes that having the sheriff-coroner investigate deaths involving officers is a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of that, they can influence the findings of the autopsy,” Pan said. “They can even modify the reports.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan introduced SB 1303 in response to accusations late last year that a county sheriff had in fact meddled in death investigations and altered findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Death Investigation Scandal in San Joaquin County\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief forensic pathologist for San Joaquin County, Dr. Bennet Omalu, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused\u003c/a> Sheriff Steve Moore of overriding autopsy findings in cases where an officer of the law appeared to have killed someone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu, known for his discovery of the debilitating brain disease CTE in professional football players, resigned from his position as chief forensic pathologist Dec. 4, after a decade holding the position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the reasons he said he could no longer work for Moore were several instances where he had determined a person’s death was a homicide, only to watch Moore override his findings and label the death an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu testified in support of Pan's bill, which was sponsored by the California Medical Association. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.calsheriffs.org/about-us/about-cssa-our-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California State Sheriffs' Association\u003c/a>, currently led by Moore, opposed the measure as costly and unnecessary, and the California State Association of Counties objected to the measure's interference with local autonomy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the legislation ultimately failed, San Joaquin County supervisors moved to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664465/san-joaquin-county-sheriff-stripped-of-role-in-death-investigations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strip\u003c/a> the sheriff of his coroner duties and establish an independent medical examiner’s office. That effort is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11672974/sheriff-accused-of-interfering-in-death-investigations-loses-re-election-bid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost\u003c/a> his re-election in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu recently opened new \u003ca href=\"https://www.bennetomalu.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offices\u003c/a> and is providing autopsies for several local entities and expert witness testimony in cases throughout the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pan plans to keep trying to improve death investigations in California. Contrary to the governor’s veto message, the senator thinks that local officials are unlikely to challenge the sheriff-coroner system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheriffs have tremendous political power in counties,” Pan said. “That’s why many counties have been very slow to address this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11693911/governor-vetoes-bill-that-sought-independence-in-death-investigations","authors":["6625"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_22173","news_21742","news_23360","news_21047","news_22171","news_22846","news_22172"],"featImg":"news_11633434","label":"news_72"},"news_11666113":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11666113","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11666113","score":null,"sort":[1525325216000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"stephon-clark-autopsy-controversy-as-county-coroner-points-to-errors-private-doctor-defends-his-findings","title":"Stephon Clark Autopsy Controversy: As Coroner Points to Errors, Private Doctor Defends His Findings","publishDate":1525325216,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The forensic pathologist who performed a private autopsy on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stephon-clark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephon Clark\u003c/a> said in a statement late Wednesday that he stands \"firmly in defense\" of his findings in the high-profile Sacramento police shooting case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement from Dr. Bennet Omalu come after an official report released by the Sacramento County coroner declared that Omalu's autopsy contained \"erroneous information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658808/independent-autopsy-finds-police-shot-stephon-clark-in-the-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his original findings\u003c/a> at a March 30 press conference with attorneys for Clark's family but has not made public a complete report on the private autopsy he performed. In his report, Omalu said the unarmed Clark was shot 8 times, primarily in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark died the evening of March 18, after two Sacramento police officers fired 20 rounds at him seconds after confronting him in his grandparents' back yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers say they were responding to 911 calls regarding a suspect breaking into cars in the south Sacramento neighborhood, and a sheriff's helicopter reported that Clark broke a window on a neighbor's house before he was recorded jumping a fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ICLcwf7YsY&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers arrived about 30 seconds later. One of the officers was recorded on body camera video shouting, \"Show me your hands -- gun!\" then repeating it before shouting \"Gun, gun, gun!\" a second before both officers started firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A cellphone was discovered near Clark's body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento County coroner's report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665949/dueling-autopsies-stir-controversy-over-sacramento-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made public on Tuesday\u003c/a> was prefaced by a letter that said Omalu's private autopsy was reviewed by three additional forensic pathologists in the office, plus former Sacramento County forensic pathologist Gregory Reiber, \"in an effort to ensure we got the facts correct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Police/Transparency/Officer-Involved-Shootings/Coroner-Report-2018_0427.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coroner's report\u003c/a> found seven gunshot wounds on Clark's body, and Reiber wrote in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Police/Transparency/Officer-Involved-Shootings/Reiber-Review-2018_0422-V2.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review\u003c/a> that Omalu mistook an exit wound on the left side of Clark's chest for an eighth entry wound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a significant error, as it leads to incorrect conclusions regarding the relative positions of the victim and the shooters during the event,\" Reiber wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Omalu said Clark wasn't facing the police when they shot him, Reiber concluded that the body camera and helicopter videos show \"there was an initial face-on confrontation,\" and that Clark was moving toward the officers when they began to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiber's analysis also challenged Omalu's conclusion that Clark had been shot primarily from behind. He argued that three of six wounds Omalu had described as being in the back were actually on Clark's right side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu's statement dismissed Reiber's statement as \"inaccurate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/10tisgumYJ7lbGNLSxVnlMtc0SZcq2Ofy3fp65pSQXHo/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint statement\u003c/a>, three civil attorneys representing Clark's family defended Omalu's credibility and criticized Reiber's past association with the Sacramento County coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is outrageous, but not surprising, that authorities would attempt to defend the indefensible,\" the statement by attorneys Ben Crump, Brian Panish and Dale Galipo says. \"Stephon Clark was shot in the back, multiple times, while armed with nothing more than a cellphone, posing no real threat to police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement says Reiber \"was employed by the County of Sacramento and has been historically pro-law enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys point to Reiber's recent testimony to the state Senate Public Safety Committee in opposition to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> that would require large California counties to use a medical examiner system, independent of county sheriff's departments, to investigate suspicious deaths. Most California counties use a sheriff-coroner system, where the sheriff makes the ultimate determination of manner of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff-coroner system has faced recent criticism, driven in part by Omalu, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned\u003c/a> as San Joaquin County's chief forensic pathologist in December, alleging interference from Sheriff Steve Moore in cases involving deaths at the hands of law enforcement. Omalu also testified in support of the bill mandating a medical examiner system for large California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu said in \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b1SQNtL2hzOsFFaU3P8F81xBmrLSCeqE/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his statement\u003c/a> that the initial autopsy on Clark -- performed by Sacramento County forensic pathologist Keng-Chin Su -- neglected both basic and advanced procedures that could provide insight into Clark's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To my utter dismay, I observed that none of the gunshot wounds had been previously excised for histologic evaluation,\" Omalu wrote, referring to a microscopic examination of the tissue around the gunshot wounds. He wrote that his examination of \"the wound in question\" on back of Clark's left side \"demonstrated a gunshot wound of entrance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu wrote that he also removed the spinal cord and documented significant injuries not identified in the coroner's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this time, none of the pathologists who have signed the autopsy report and claimed that I was wrong have examined the spinal cord, either grossly or microscopically,\" Omalu wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Omalu and the attorneys released a black-and-white \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VYcqQeC4oYjFljbgLJTc0P9kEfTug2aF/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photograph\u003c/a> of the upper right, back of Clark's body, which shows six gunshot wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Experts may have different opinions, but a picture is a picture,\" Omalu wrote. \"A picture does not have an opinion.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The private forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on Sacramento police shooting victim challenges coroner's official findings. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530293909,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":834},"headData":{"title":"Stephon Clark Autopsy Controversy: As Coroner Points to Errors, Private Doctor Defends His Findings | KQED","description":"The private forensic pathologist who performed an autopsy on Sacramento police shooting victim challenges coroner's official findings. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11666113 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11666113","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/05/02/stephon-clark-autopsy-controversy-as-county-coroner-points-to-errors-private-doctor-defends-his-findings/","disqusTitle":"Stephon Clark Autopsy Controversy: As Coroner Points to Errors, Private Doctor Defends His Findings","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/05/ClarkAutopsySmall180503.mp3","path":"/news/11666113/stephon-clark-autopsy-controversy-as-county-coroner-points-to-errors-private-doctor-defends-his-findings","audioDuration":101000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The forensic pathologist who performed a private autopsy on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stephon-clark/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephon Clark\u003c/a> said in a statement late Wednesday that he stands \"firmly in defense\" of his findings in the high-profile Sacramento police shooting case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement from Dr. Bennet Omalu come after an official report released by the Sacramento County coroner declared that Omalu's autopsy contained \"erroneous information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658808/independent-autopsy-finds-police-shot-stephon-clark-in-the-back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his original findings\u003c/a> at a March 30 press conference with attorneys for Clark's family but has not made public a complete report on the private autopsy he performed. In his report, Omalu said the unarmed Clark was shot 8 times, primarily in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark died the evening of March 18, after two Sacramento police officers fired 20 rounds at him seconds after confronting him in his grandparents' back yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers say they were responding to 911 calls regarding a suspect breaking into cars in the south Sacramento neighborhood, and a sheriff's helicopter reported that Clark broke a window on a neighbor's house before he was recorded jumping a fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4ICLcwf7YsY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4ICLcwf7YsY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The officers arrived about 30 seconds later. One of the officers was recorded on body camera video shouting, \"Show me your hands -- gun!\" then repeating it before shouting \"Gun, gun, gun!\" a second before both officers started firing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A cellphone was discovered near Clark's body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento County coroner's report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665949/dueling-autopsies-stir-controversy-over-sacramento-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made public on Tuesday\u003c/a> was prefaced by a letter that said Omalu's private autopsy was reviewed by three additional forensic pathologists in the office, plus former Sacramento County forensic pathologist Gregory Reiber, \"in an effort to ensure we got the facts correct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Police/Transparency/Officer-Involved-Shootings/Coroner-Report-2018_0427.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coroner's report\u003c/a> found seven gunshot wounds on Clark's body, and Reiber wrote in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Police/Transparency/Officer-Involved-Shootings/Reiber-Review-2018_0422-V2.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review\u003c/a> that Omalu mistook an exit wound on the left side of Clark's chest for an eighth entry wound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a significant error, as it leads to incorrect conclusions regarding the relative positions of the victim and the shooters during the event,\" Reiber wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Omalu said Clark wasn't facing the police when they shot him, Reiber concluded that the body camera and helicopter videos show \"there was an initial face-on confrontation,\" and that Clark was moving toward the officers when they began to fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiber's analysis also challenged Omalu's conclusion that Clark had been shot primarily from behind. He argued that three of six wounds Omalu had described as being in the back were actually on Clark's right side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu's statement dismissed Reiber's statement as \"inaccurate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/10tisgumYJ7lbGNLSxVnlMtc0SZcq2Ofy3fp65pSQXHo/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint statement\u003c/a>, three civil attorneys representing Clark's family defended Omalu's credibility and criticized Reiber's past association with the Sacramento County coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is outrageous, but not surprising, that authorities would attempt to defend the indefensible,\" the statement by attorneys Ben Crump, Brian Panish and Dale Galipo says. \"Stephon Clark was shot in the back, multiple times, while armed with nothing more than a cellphone, posing no real threat to police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement says Reiber \"was employed by the County of Sacramento and has been historically pro-law enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorneys point to Reiber's recent testimony to the state Senate Public Safety Committee in opposition to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation\u003c/a> that would require large California counties to use a medical examiner system, independent of county sheriff's departments, to investigate suspicious deaths. Most California counties use a sheriff-coroner system, where the sheriff makes the ultimate determination of manner of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff-coroner system has faced recent criticism, driven in part by Omalu, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11634689/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned\u003c/a> as San Joaquin County's chief forensic pathologist in December, alleging interference from Sheriff Steve Moore in cases involving deaths at the hands of law enforcement. Omalu also testified in support of the bill mandating a medical examiner system for large California counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu said in \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b1SQNtL2hzOsFFaU3P8F81xBmrLSCeqE/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his statement\u003c/a> that the initial autopsy on Clark -- performed by Sacramento County forensic pathologist Keng-Chin Su -- neglected both basic and advanced procedures that could provide insight into Clark's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To my utter dismay, I observed that none of the gunshot wounds had been previously excised for histologic evaluation,\" Omalu wrote, referring to a microscopic examination of the tissue around the gunshot wounds. He wrote that his examination of \"the wound in question\" on back of Clark's left side \"demonstrated a gunshot wound of entrance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu wrote that he also removed the spinal cord and documented significant injuries not identified in the coroner's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this time, none of the pathologists who have signed the autopsy report and claimed that I was wrong have examined the spinal cord, either grossly or microscopically,\" Omalu wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, Omalu and the attorneys released a black-and-white \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VYcqQeC4oYjFljbgLJTc0P9kEfTug2aF/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photograph\u003c/a> of the upper right, back of Clark's body, which shows six gunshot wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Experts may have different opinions, but a picture is a picture,\" Omalu wrote. \"A picture does not have an opinion.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11666113/stephon-clark-autopsy-controversy-as-county-coroner-points-to-errors-private-doctor-defends-his-findings","authors":["3206"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_22173","news_19542","news_22820","news_22846","news_22814","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11666115","label":"news_72"},"news_11665949":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11665949","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11665949","score":null,"sort":[1525306125000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"dueling-autopsies-stir-controversy-over-sacramento-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark","title":"Dueling Autopsies Stir Controversy Over Sacramento Police Shooting of Stephon Clark","publishDate":1525306125,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The official Sacramento County coroner's report released Tuesday on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stephon-clark/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police shooting death of Stephon Clark\u003c/a> contradicts some of the medical findings and most of the opinions of a private forensic pathologist hired by Clark's family, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658808/independent-autopsy-finds-police-shot-stephon-clark-in-the-back\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced to a bank of news reporters\u003c/a> a month ago that the 22-year-old, unarmed black man wasn't facing the officers when they opened fire on March 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposition that has been presented that he [Clark] was assailing the officers -- meaning he was facing the officers -- is inconsistent with the prevailing forensic evidence as documented at autopsy,” Dr. Bennet Omalu said on March 30, less than two weeks after Clark's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Omalu nor civil rights attorney Ben Crump provided an actual copy of the private autopsy report, and a lawsuit on behalf of Clark's family expected a month ago has yet to be filed. Omalu did not respond on the record to requests for comment. Attorneys representing Clark's family did not respond by publication deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When an attorney has a pathologist present their findings before they have all the information, they’re taking certain risks, and among those risks are the physical information on the body may be misinterpreted and errors can be made,\" said forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek, who is not involved in the Stephon Clark case. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other reason that they might want to do this is in order to counter some sort of narrative or information that’s been released by the police agencies, so they want to have their version of events out there. The problem is the accuracy may not be there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu's findings further inflamed anger over Clark's death, who police officers said on body-camera footage was advancing toward them with something in his hand they thought was a gun. Clark did not have a gun. A cellphone was discovered next to his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Bennet Omalu and attorney Benjamin Crump gave a press conference about the results of a private autopsy of Stephon Clark. Dr. Omalu's findings indicate Clark was shot in the side and back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bennet Omalu and attorney Ben Crump gave a press conference about the results of a private autopsy of Stephon Clark. Dr. Omalu's findings indicate Clark was shot in the side and back. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The officers who shot Clark on the evening of March 18 were responding to reports of a man breaking into cars in a South Sacramento neighborhood. A sheriff's department helicopter spotted the suspect in a backyard and reported that he broke a sliding glass door on a house before he ran into a neighboring backyard -- behind his grandparents' home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers confronted Clark there at approximately 9:30 p.m. One of them said “Show me your hands! ... Gun, gun, gun!” just before both officers fired a total of 20 rounds at Clark. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article206557539.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have been identified\u003c/a> by a civil rights attorney with knowledge of the case, but their names were withheld by the Sacramento Police Department, which cited death threats made against the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stephon-clark/\">KQED's full coverage of the Stephon Clark shooting\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stephon-clark/\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/infrared-5456ddc24ccbfee250970b5970e7cbf7b5a90470-911x576.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Coroner Kimberly Gin wrote in a cover letter to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Police/Transparency/Officer-Involved-Shootings/Coroner-Report-2018_0427.pdf?la=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coroner's report\u003c/a> that the private autopsy performed by Omalu presented \"erroneous information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner's office went to great lengths to counter the narrative presented by Omalu. Three Sacramento County forensic pathologists, including chief forensic pathologist Jason Tovar reviewed and signed the findings of Dr. Keng-Chih Su, who performed the official autopsy on Clark's body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner also retained Dr. Gregory Reiber to review the findings. He used to work for Sacramento County, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article210248019.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is clear from review of the written report and photographic documentation that Stephon Clark was struck by seven bullets, not by eight as claimed by Dr. Omalu in his press conference statements and as shown on his autopsy diagram,\" Reiber \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Police/Transparency/Officer-Involved-Shootings/Reiber-Review-2018_0422-V2.pdf?la=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in his report\u003c/a>, adding that Omalu mistook an exit wound on the left side of Clark's chest for an entrance wound. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a significant error, as it leads to incorrect conclusions regarding the relative positions of the victim and shooters during the event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ap_18086073159406-bda41457cd77e4562244ad5ecf266d2ed804a021-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"This March 18 photo shows Stephon Clark the afternoon before he died in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658662\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This March 18 photo shows Stephon Clark the afternoon before he died in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Omalu presented a theory that the wound on the left side of Clark's chest was the first shot that struck him, spinning his body so that his back was toward the officers, and continuing to spin clockwise as subsequent bullets hit him. Omalu said a gunshot wound to the front of Clark's left thigh could have been the last shot to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiber wrote that Omalu's conclusions about the order of the shots were \"untenable\" based on his review of officers' body-camera and helicopter \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0Wtq8JGPQbAjx78D2ep85C7l3HOxpNC\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video footage\u003c/a> made public by the Sacramento Police Department on March 21. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiber said the shot to Clark's left thigh was \"most likely the first shot, sustained either as Clark was walking toward the officers' position with his left thigh raised, or possibly in the crouching position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At no time does the video show Clark to have the left side of his body facing the officers' position as shots are fired, nor does the video show him turning around from a left-facing position, still upright, and putting his back squarely toward the officers as there were further shots fired which then dropped him,\" Reiber wrote. \"The video evidence provides clear refutation of Omalu's description of Clark's body positioning during the shooting as described in his press conference statements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiber's analysis of the videos aligns with KQED's, which found that Clark appeared to be moving toward the officers in the moments before they opened fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/4ICLcwf7YsY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melinek said it's actually pretty common for forensic pathologists to have differing opinions about the same death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not unusual,\" she said. \"You can have two reputable, highly competent, board certified forensic pathologists look at the same set of data -- meaning trajectories in a gunshot wound case -- and consider different ancillary data like information from the scene and put different weight on it and come to different conclusions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toxicology tests show Clark had alcohol, codeine, cocaine and marijuana in his system, as well as anti-anxiety medication.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The official coroner's report on Stephon Clark’s death contradicts some of the findings and most of the opinions of a private forensic pathologist hired by Clark's family.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1525307639,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1042},"headData":{"title":"Dueling Autopsies Stir Controversy Over Sacramento Police Shooting of Stephon Clark | KQED","description":"The official coroner's report on Stephon Clark’s death contradicts some of the findings and most of the opinions of a private forensic pathologist hired by Clark's family.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11665949 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11665949","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/05/02/dueling-autopsies-stir-controversy-over-sacramento-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark/","disqusTitle":"Dueling Autopsies Stir Controversy Over Sacramento Police Shooting of Stephon Clark","path":"/news/11665949/dueling-autopsies-stir-controversy-over-sacramento-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The official Sacramento County coroner's report released Tuesday on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stephon-clark/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police shooting death of Stephon Clark\u003c/a> contradicts some of the medical findings and most of the opinions of a private forensic pathologist hired by Clark's family, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658808/independent-autopsy-finds-police-shot-stephon-clark-in-the-back\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced to a bank of news reporters\u003c/a> a month ago that the 22-year-old, unarmed black man wasn't facing the officers when they opened fire on March 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposition that has been presented that he [Clark] was assailing the officers -- meaning he was facing the officers -- is inconsistent with the prevailing forensic evidence as documented at autopsy,” Dr. Bennet Omalu said on March 30, less than two weeks after Clark's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Omalu nor civil rights attorney Ben Crump provided an actual copy of the private autopsy report, and a lawsuit on behalf of Clark's family expected a month ago has yet to be filed. Omalu did not respond on the record to requests for comment. Attorneys representing Clark's family did not respond by publication deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When an attorney has a pathologist present their findings before they have all the information, they’re taking certain risks, and among those risks are the physical information on the body may be misinterpreted and errors can be made,\" said forensic pathologist Dr. Judy Melinek, who is not involved in the Stephon Clark case. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other reason that they might want to do this is in order to counter some sort of narrative or information that’s been released by the police agencies, so they want to have their version of events out there. The problem is the accuracy may not be there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu's findings further inflamed anger over Clark's death, who police officers said on body-camera footage was advancing toward them with something in his hand they thought was a gun. Clark did not have a gun. A cellphone was discovered next to his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Bennet Omalu and attorney Benjamin Crump gave a press conference about the results of a private autopsy of Stephon Clark. Dr. Omalu's findings indicate Clark was shot in the side and back.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658867\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/RS30123_20180330_ClarkAutopsy_Credit_BertJohnson-2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bennet Omalu and attorney Ben Crump gave a press conference about the results of a private autopsy of Stephon Clark. Dr. Omalu's findings indicate Clark was shot in the side and back. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The officers who shot Clark on the evening of March 18 were responding to reports of a man breaking into cars in a South Sacramento neighborhood. A sheriff's department helicopter spotted the suspect in a backyard and reported that he broke a sliding glass door on a house before he ran into a neighboring backyard -- behind his grandparents' home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers confronted Clark there at approximately 9:30 p.m. One of them said “Show me your hands! ... Gun, gun, gun!” just before both officers fired a total of 20 rounds at Clark. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article206557539.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have been identified\u003c/a> by a civil rights attorney with knowledge of the case, but their names were withheld by the Sacramento Police Department, which cited death threats made against the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stephon-clark/\">KQED's full coverage of the Stephon Clark shooting\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/stephon-clark/\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/infrared-5456ddc24ccbfee250970b5970e7cbf7b5a90470-911x576.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Coroner Kimberly Gin wrote in a cover letter to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Police/Transparency/Officer-Involved-Shootings/Coroner-Report-2018_0427.pdf?la=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coroner's report\u003c/a> that the private autopsy performed by Omalu presented \"erroneous information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner's office went to great lengths to counter the narrative presented by Omalu. Three Sacramento County forensic pathologists, including chief forensic pathologist Jason Tovar reviewed and signed the findings of Dr. Keng-Chih Su, who performed the official autopsy on Clark's body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner also retained Dr. Gregory Reiber to review the findings. He used to work for Sacramento County, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article210248019.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is clear from review of the written report and photographic documentation that Stephon Clark was struck by seven bullets, not by eight as claimed by Dr. Omalu in his press conference statements and as shown on his autopsy diagram,\" Reiber \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/Police/Transparency/Officer-Involved-Shootings/Reiber-Review-2018_0422-V2.pdf?la=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in his report\u003c/a>, adding that Omalu mistook an exit wound on the left side of Clark's chest for an entrance wound. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a significant error, as it leads to incorrect conclusions regarding the relative positions of the victim and shooters during the event.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/ap_18086073159406-bda41457cd77e4562244ad5ecf266d2ed804a021-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"This March 18 photo shows Stephon Clark the afternoon before he died in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658662\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This March 18 photo shows Stephon Clark the afternoon before he died in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Omalu presented a theory that the wound on the left side of Clark's chest was the first shot that struck him, spinning his body so that his back was toward the officers, and continuing to spin clockwise as subsequent bullets hit him. Omalu said a gunshot wound to the front of Clark's left thigh could have been the last shot to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiber wrote that Omalu's conclusions about the order of the shots were \"untenable\" based on his review of officers' body-camera and helicopter \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR0Wtq8JGPQbAjx78D2ep85C7l3HOxpNC\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video footage\u003c/a> made public by the Sacramento Police Department on March 21. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiber said the shot to Clark's left thigh was \"most likely the first shot, sustained either as Clark was walking toward the officers' position with his left thigh raised, or possibly in the crouching position.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At no time does the video show Clark to have the left side of his body facing the officers' position as shots are fired, nor does the video show him turning around from a left-facing position, still upright, and putting his back squarely toward the officers as there were further shots fired which then dropped him,\" Reiber wrote. \"The video evidence provides clear refutation of Omalu's description of Clark's body positioning during the shooting as described in his press conference statements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiber's analysis of the videos aligns with KQED's, which found that Clark appeared to be moving toward the officers in the moments before they opened fire.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4ICLcwf7YsY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4ICLcwf7YsY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Melinek said it's actually pretty common for forensic pathologists to have differing opinions about the same death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not unusual,\" she said. \"You can have two reputable, highly competent, board certified forensic pathologists look at the same set of data -- meaning trajectories in a gunshot wound case -- and consider different ancillary data like information from the scene and put different weight on it and come to different conclusions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toxicology tests show Clark had alcohol, codeine, cocaine and marijuana in his system, as well as anti-anxiety medication.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11665949/dueling-autopsies-stir-controversy-over-sacramento-police-shooting-of-stephon-clark","authors":["3206","6625"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_22174","news_22173","news_21742","news_19542","news_116","news_4379","news_22820","news_22814","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11666070","label":"news_72"},"news_11658987":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11658987","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11658987","score":null,"sort":[1522448929000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"shot-in-the-back","title":"Shot in the Back","publishDate":1522448929,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":18515,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>An independent autopsy found that \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fioreautopsy\">six bullets struck Stephon Clark in the back\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He wasn't facing the officers,\" said forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu, who performed an autopsy at the request of Clark's family, said that there were no fatal wounds on the front of the body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renowned pathologist, famous for his work in concussion-related brain disease in football players, said that Clark was most likely alive for three to 10 minutes after being shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"An independent autopsy found that six bullets struck Stephon Clark in the back. \"He wasn't facing the officers,\" said Dr. Bennet Omalu.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1522448929,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":6,"wordCount":82},"headData":{"title":"Shot in the Back | KQED","description":"An independent autopsy found that six bullets struck Stephon Clark in the back. "He wasn't facing the officers," said Dr. Bennet Omalu.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11658987 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11658987","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/30/shot-in-the-back/","disqusTitle":"Shot in the Back","path":"/news/11658987/shot-in-the-back","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>An independent autopsy found that \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/fioreautopsy\">six bullets struck Stephon Clark in the back\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He wasn't facing the officers,\" said forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu, who performed an autopsy at the request of Clark's family, said that there were no fatal wounds on the front of the body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renowned pathologist, famous for his work in concussion-related brain disease in football players, said that Clark was most likely alive for three to 10 minutes after being shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11658987/shot-in-the-back","authors":["3236"],"series":["news_18515"],"categories":["news_6188","news_13"],"tags":["news_22173","news_22544","news_20150","news_20949","news_6104","news_22850","news_4379","news_22814"],"featImg":"news_11658999","label":"news_18515"},"news_11656649":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11656649","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11656649","score":null,"sort":[1518215588000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"concussions-in-youth-sports","title":"Dr. Bennet Omalu: Concussions in Youth Sports","publishDate":1518215588,"format":"video","headTitle":"KQED Newsroom | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7052,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Pioneering forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu’s new book, \u003ci>Brain Damage in Contact Sports,\u003c/i> offers clear advice to parents who are wondering whether to allow their children to play full contact sports like football or lacrosse. Dr. Omalu pioneered understanding of degenerative brain disease in athletes who sustain multiple head injuries, and his fight to push the NFL to admit to the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries among former football players was chronicled in the movie \u003ci>Concussion\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Pioneering forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu’s new book, Brain Damage in Contact Sports, offers clear advice to parents who are wondering whether to allow their children to play full contact sports.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521495718,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":3,"wordCount":83},"headData":{"title":"Dr. Bennet Omalu: Concussions in Youth Sports | KQED","description":"Pioneering forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu’s new book, Brain Damage in Contact Sports, offers clear advice to parents who are wondering whether to allow their children to play full contact sports.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11656649 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11656649","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/02/09/concussions-in-youth-sports/","disqusTitle":"Dr. Bennet Omalu: Concussions in Youth Sports","videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/tko5fi1bMgQ","path":"/news/11656649/concussions-in-youth-sports","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Pioneering forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu’s new book, \u003ci>Brain Damage in Contact Sports,\u003c/i> offers clear advice to parents who are wondering whether to allow their children to play full contact sports like football or lacrosse. Dr. Omalu pioneered understanding of degenerative brain disease in athletes who sustain multiple head injuries, and his fight to push the NFL to admit to the prevalence of traumatic brain injuries among former football players was chronicled in the movie \u003ci>Concussion\u003c/i>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11656649/concussions-in-youth-sports","authors":["236"],"programs":["news_7052"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_22173","news_22546","news_20052","news_499"],"featImg":"news_11656650","label":"news_7052"},"news_11638866":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11638866","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11638866","score":null,"sort":[1513971567000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murder-cases","title":"Pathologists Say San Joaquin Sheriff's Meddling Could Have Compromised Murder Cases","publishDate":1513971567,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Two forensic pathologists who \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have accused\u003c/a> the San Joaquin County sheriff of interfering with death investigations to protect law enforcement officers are also alleging Sheriff Steve Moore meddled with their work on high-profile homicides and suspicious deaths, potentially compromising murder cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s chief forensic pathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4322057-Letter-of-Resignation-Bennet-Omalu-MD-2017-12-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his resignation\u003c/a> Dec. 5, a little over a week after his colleague Dr. Susan Parson \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/27/autopsy-doctor-quits-alleges-sheriff-interfered-in-death-probes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave similar notice\u003c/a>. Both doctors accused the sheriff of trying to influence their investigations and their findings.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"bOdZUxQlMlohk29U0cR9RThS81lBRF45\"]\u003cbr>\nIn over 100 pages of memos, email and letters obtained by KQED, the doctors detailed dozens of incidents they say support those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED reported\u003c/a> the allegations that the sheriff “routinely” interfered in investigations of people who died at the hands of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In memos attached to an Oct. 1 letter to the medical director of San Joaquin General Hospital, the doctors wrote that Moore also prevented them from visiting crime scenes, failed to notify them of other cases they were legally obligated to investigate and canceled forensic tests without their knowledge or consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion,” Parson and Omalu wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore denied the allegations in a written statement on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been questions recently about whether I have interfered with forensic investigations. That has never happened,” Moore wrote. “I would never try to influence or change the opinions of Dr Omalu or any pathologist working on a case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu -- whose discovery of a deadly brain disease in professional football players was depicted in the 2015 movie “Concussion” -- said he accepted a job with San Joaquin County a decade ago to raise the standards of death investigations in a medically underserved community. But in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4322057-Letter-of-Resignation-Bennet-Omalu-MD-2017-12-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignation letter\u003c/a>, Omalu wrote that he was met with resistance from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11638942 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu participates in a briefing sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on January 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu participates in a briefing sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on Jan, 12, 2016, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Pete Marovich/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I first experienced this with Sheriff Steve Moore when he prevented me from attending crime scenes which detectives from police departments of other cities may have wanted me to attend, or scenes I wanted to attend, especially on complicated and/or unusual cases,” Omalu wrote. “I believed this interference would stop the longer I stayed in the office and exhibited the highest and exemplary standards of practice. Unfortunately, it did not stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preventing Forensic Pathologists From Examining Crime Scenes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns over the lack of participation of a forensic pathologist prompted a San Joaquin County prosecutor to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335112-2013-Deputy-DA-Letter-Re-People-v-Dawson-McGehee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a letter\u003c/a> to the sheriff in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that in writing this letter it brings to your attention how the failure to have the Forensic Pathologist come to the scene can have an affect (sic) on the prosecution of some cases,” Deputy District Attorney Sherri Adams wrote, referencing the Oct. 30, 2011, \u003ca href=\"http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1733295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murder of Kathleen McGehee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGehee was discovered stabbed to death in her Manteca home on Oct. 31 of that year, a day when both her son Dawson McGehee and a daughter were in and out of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Dr. Omalu’s ability to perform forensic pathological analysis to ascertain the time of death was significantly impaired.'\u003ccite>Sherri Adams,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lead investigator asked for Omalu to examine the body at the house. The sheriff’s office refused to send Omalu, and never told him about the request, according to Adams’ letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day later, Omalu performed an autopsy on McGehee in the morgue, but because of the delay and the refrigeration of the body, “Dr. Omalu’s ability to perform forensic pathological analysis to ascertain the time of death was significantly impaired,” Adams wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney charged Dawson McGehee with murder. During the trial, Adams wrote, the defense argued that the victim was alive on Oct. 31 and that someone other than her son could have killed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were members of the jury that entertained this theory as a reasonable possibility based on the evidence,” Adams wrote to Moore. “Thankfully the jury in this case was able to render a verdict of guilt; however, the date and time of death was a real source of debate during the five days of jury deliberations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said she never received a response to her letter and doesn’t know why the sheriff denied the request for Omalu to visit the crime scene. But, she said, she believes changes were made after that. In 2013, Adams prosecuted another homicide — and in that case, Omalu went to the crime scene, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335341-Sheriff-Moore-17-12-21-response-to-DA-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written statement\u003c/a> Thursday that his office is \"in the process of reviewing\" Adams' 2013 letter, and that the general practice is to send pathologists to crime scenes once they've been requested by the investigating agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case is more than six years old,\" Moore wrote, \"and staff assigned to the Coroner's Office at that time have either retired, rotated out, or are no longer working at the Sheriff's Office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Canceling Doctors’ Orders for Tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic pathologists Omalu and Parson also documented a number of times when they say the sheriff overrode their requests for additional tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu cited a case where the decomposed remains of Lisa Ann Valdez, who had been missing for months, were found on June 8, 2016, also in Manteca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez’s body showed evidence of toxic levels of amphetamine, but Omalu could not rule out other causes because the head and neck of her body were missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion.'\u003ccite>Dr. Bennet Omalu,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County Chief Forensic Pathologist (Resigned)\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I had to determine if she had been killed by someone or if she died as a result of some type of accident,” Omalu wrote in a memo sent to the county medical director on Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu recounted that he ordered an anthropological autopsy that might provide further evidence. But months later, when he asked for that report, a sheriff’s deputy told him that his request for laboratory analysis was “overruled” and “the skeleton was released to the family and cremated,” according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An incomplete autopsy undermines, and does not pass the reasonable degree of medical certainty threshold and standard,” Omalu wrote on his autopsy report. “I cannot provide an opinion in regard to the mechanisms of death and causes of death in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the medical director of San Joaquin General Hospital, Omalu wrote, “A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both doctors wrote that the sheriff’s decision to cancel lab work amounted to the illegal practice of medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls for Independent Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar said she was aware of the allegations before the doctors resigned and had launched an investigation “several weeks” ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SJCDA/posts/1702461886467144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec. 12 post\u003c/a> on the DA’s Facebook page stated: “San Joaquin County Pathologists Dr. Bennet Omalu and Susan Parson have made our office aware of concerns in the operations of their office, and requested the District Attorney to investigate. The investigation has been initiated and is ongoing. When the investigation is complete, this office will review the facts as presented and make the appropriate decisions at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar with investigation files for the 2008 death of Daniel Lee Humprheys, who was tased to death by a CHP officer. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents want an independent agency outside the county to investigate the allegations against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know how they could possibly investigate the sheriff's office regarding these cases because they're the ones that also handled all of the officer-involved cases” said Barbara Steward, a Stockton resident whose ex-husband, Daniel Humphreys, died in 2008 after being \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tased 31 times\u003c/a> by a California Highway Patrol officer. “I'm not sure how they can be impartial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In notes sent to county officials this month, Omalu accused the sheriff of withholding a report generated by the Taser weapon the officer used. When DA Verber Salazar -- then a deputy prosecutor -- shared the Taser report with Omalu two years later, showing Humphreys was shocked for 2½ minutes, Omalu changed his findings in the case from accidental death to a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward, who was married to Humphreys for 13 years and had two daughters with him, was working for the sheriff when he died. She and Humphreys had divorced and she had remarried. Steward retired this year.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"2oHRBJZiMQWzdSwmcHquN077ZRk3oV9q\"]\u003cbr>\nShe said that after the doctors’ allegations surfaced, she felt free to finally reveal what she knew about the night her ex-husband died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He (Moore) was aware of that case very early on when it was unfolding on scene,” Steward said. “As soon as that information (from the Taser) was downloaded -- which is a pretty instant thing -- I'm sure he was made aware of what that was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said an apparent lack of follow-up on that case by the district attorney’s office still bothers her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Steward wants the attorney general of California or some other independent agency to investigate the allegations against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it needs to be handled by someone higher up,” Steward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement this week, a spokesperson for Attorney General Xavier Becerra wrote, “To protect its integrity, we can’t comment on, even to confirm or deny, a potential or ongoing investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations Fuel Calls For Independent Medical Examiner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations against the sheriff, a growing number of physicians -- including the California Medical Association -- have urged the county Board of Supervisors to create a medical examiner’s office run by physicians, who would determine both the cause and manner of suspicious deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County, like the majority of counties in California, established a sheriff-coroner system for investigating sudden, violent or suspicious deaths, and all deaths involving law enforcement. Typically the coroner, who is also the elected sheriff, hires a forensic pathologist to conduct autopsies and determine the medical causes of death, such as a heart attack or blunt-force trauma. Then the sheriff determines the manner of death: accidental, suicide, homicide, natural or undetermined -- based on the autopsy findings and the investigatory findings of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the system say having an elected official determine the manner of death presents a conflict of interest, and creates a perception, real or not, that political pressure affected the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the public comment period at a Dec. 12 county Board of Supervisors meeting, Dr. Grant Mellor of the San Joaquin County Medical Society urged supervisors to take immediate action to protect the independence of forensic pathologists performing autopsies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is gaining national -- as well as international -- attention,” said Dr. Kwabena Adubofour at the same meeting, referring to reports and editorials in The Washington Post and texts he said he’d received from colleagues in London asking, “What’s going on in San Joaquin County?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DA Verber Salazar also urged the board to create a separate medical examiner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors Chair Chuck Winn said he’s waiting for the county counsel to investigate the allegations and determine if any laws were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winn said it would be “irresponsible” to make decisions until the board has all the facts gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly we want to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to provide their input or side as to as to what's occurred and maybe what needs to be done in the future,” he said. “I think it's a little early to make any decisions as to what we're going to do until we have a chance to evaluate what the costs or the consequences the reorganization would entail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, for example, voted last year to restore the independence of medical examiners following allegations that the sheriff had interfered with death investigations by withholding evidence and pressuring forensic pathologists to change their findings. The shift resulted in an annual $800,000 increase to the county budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said he “would fully support separation” if the Board of Supervisors and the people of San Joaquin County want it.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Two forensic pathologists say Sheriff Steve Moore prevented them from visiting crime scenes, failed to notify them of other cases they were legally obligated to investigate and canceled forensic tests without their knowledge.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1530643425,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":55,"wordCount":2205},"headData":{"title":"Pathologists Say San Joaquin Sheriff's Meddling Could Have Compromised Murder Cases | KQED","description":"Two forensic pathologists say Sheriff Steve Moore prevented them from visiting crime scenes, failed to notify them of other cases they were legally obligated to investigate and canceled forensic tests without their knowledge.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11638866 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11638866","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/22/pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murder-cases/","disqusTitle":"Pathologists Say San Joaquin Sheriff's Meddling Could Have Compromised Murder Cases","path":"/news/11638866/pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murder-cases","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two forensic pathologists who \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have accused\u003c/a> the San Joaquin County sheriff of interfering with death investigations to protect law enforcement officers are also alleging Sheriff Steve Moore meddled with their work on high-profile homicides and suspicious deaths, potentially compromising murder cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s chief forensic pathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4322057-Letter-of-Resignation-Bennet-Omalu-MD-2017-12-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced his resignation\u003c/a> Dec. 5, a little over a week after his colleague Dr. Susan Parson \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/27/autopsy-doctor-quits-alleges-sheriff-interfered-in-death-probes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gave similar notice\u003c/a>. Both doctors accused the sheriff of trying to influence their investigations and their findings.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn over 100 pages of memos, email and letters obtained by KQED, the doctors detailed dozens of incidents they say support those claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED reported\u003c/a> the allegations that the sheriff “routinely” interfered in investigations of people who died at the hands of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In memos attached to an Oct. 1 letter to the medical director of San Joaquin General Hospital, the doctors wrote that Moore also prevented them from visiting crime scenes, failed to notify them of other cases they were legally obligated to investigate and canceled forensic tests without their knowledge or consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion,” Parson and Omalu wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore denied the allegations in a written statement on Dec. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been questions recently about whether I have interfered with forensic investigations. That has never happened,” Moore wrote. “I would never try to influence or change the opinions of Dr Omalu or any pathologist working on a case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu -- whose discovery of a deadly brain disease in professional football players was depicted in the 2015 movie “Concussion” -- said he accepted a job with San Joaquin County a decade ago to raise the standards of death investigations in a medically underserved community. But in his \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4322057-Letter-of-Resignation-Bennet-Omalu-MD-2017-12-05.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resignation letter\u003c/a>, Omalu wrote that he was met with resistance from the start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11638942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11638942 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu participates in a briefing sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on January 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS19022_GettyImages-504713740-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu participates in a briefing sponsored by Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) on Capitol Hill on Jan, 12, 2016, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Pete Marovich/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I first experienced this with Sheriff Steve Moore when he prevented me from attending crime scenes which detectives from police departments of other cities may have wanted me to attend, or scenes I wanted to attend, especially on complicated and/or unusual cases,” Omalu wrote. “I believed this interference would stop the longer I stayed in the office and exhibited the highest and exemplary standards of practice. Unfortunately, it did not stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preventing Forensic Pathologists From Examining Crime Scenes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concerns over the lack of participation of a forensic pathologist prompted a San Joaquin County prosecutor to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335112-2013-Deputy-DA-Letter-Re-People-v-Dawson-McGehee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">write a letter\u003c/a> to the sheriff in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that in writing this letter it brings to your attention how the failure to have the Forensic Pathologist come to the scene can have an affect (sic) on the prosecution of some cases,” Deputy District Attorney Sherri Adams wrote, referencing the Oct. 30, 2011, \u003ca href=\"http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1733295.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">murder of Kathleen McGehee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGehee was discovered stabbed to death in her Manteca home on Oct. 31 of that year, a day when both her son Dawson McGehee and a daughter were in and out of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Dr. Omalu’s ability to perform forensic pathological analysis to ascertain the time of death was significantly impaired.'\u003ccite>Sherri Adams,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lead investigator asked for Omalu to examine the body at the house. The sheriff’s office refused to send Omalu, and never told him about the request, according to Adams’ letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day later, Omalu performed an autopsy on McGehee in the morgue, but because of the delay and the refrigeration of the body, “Dr. Omalu’s ability to perform forensic pathological analysis to ascertain the time of death was significantly impaired,” Adams wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney charged Dawson McGehee with murder. During the trial, Adams wrote, the defense argued that the victim was alive on Oct. 31 and that someone other than her son could have killed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were members of the jury that entertained this theory as a reasonable possibility based on the evidence,” Adams wrote to Moore. “Thankfully the jury in this case was able to render a verdict of guilt; however, the date and time of death was a real source of debate during the five days of jury deliberations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams said she never received a response to her letter and doesn’t know why the sheriff denied the request for Omalu to visit the crime scene. But, she said, she believes changes were made after that. In 2013, Adams prosecuted another homicide — and in that case, Omalu went to the crime scene, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4335341-Sheriff-Moore-17-12-21-response-to-DA-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written statement\u003c/a> Thursday that his office is \"in the process of reviewing\" Adams' 2013 letter, and that the general practice is to send pathologists to crime scenes once they've been requested by the investigating agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case is more than six years old,\" Moore wrote, \"and staff assigned to the Coroner's Office at that time have either retired, rotated out, or are no longer working at the Sheriff's Office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Canceling Doctors’ Orders for Tests\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forensic pathologists Omalu and Parson also documented a number of times when they say the sheriff overrode their requests for additional tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu cited a case where the decomposed remains of Lisa Ann Valdez, who had been missing for months, were found on June 8, 2016, also in Manteca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valdez’s body showed evidence of toxic levels of amphetamine, but Omalu could not rule out other causes because the head and neck of her body were missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion.'\u003ccite>Dr. Bennet Omalu,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County Chief Forensic Pathologist (Resigned)\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I had to determine if she had been killed by someone or if she died as a result of some type of accident,” Omalu wrote in a memo sent to the county medical director on Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu recounted that he ordered an anthropological autopsy that might provide further evidence. But months later, when he asked for that report, a sheriff’s deputy told him that his request for laboratory analysis was “overruled” and “the skeleton was released to the family and cremated,” according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An incomplete autopsy undermines, and does not pass the reasonable degree of medical certainty threshold and standard,” Omalu wrote on his autopsy report. “I cannot provide an opinion in regard to the mechanisms of death and causes of death in this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the medical director of San Joaquin General Hospital, Omalu wrote, “A person who does not have a license to practice medicine in the State of California should not be involved in the medical evaluation of a case and provision of a medical opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both doctors wrote that the sheriff’s decision to cancel lab work amounted to the illegal practice of medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Calls for Independent Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar said she was aware of the allegations before the doctors resigned and had launched an investigation “several weeks” ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SJCDA/posts/1702461886467144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec. 12 post\u003c/a> on the DA’s Facebook page stated: “San Joaquin County Pathologists Dr. Bennet Omalu and Susan Parson have made our office aware of concerns in the operations of their office, and requested the District Attorney to investigate. The investigation has been initiated and is ongoing. When the investigation is complete, this office will review the facts as presented and make the appropriate decisions at that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633436\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633436\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar with investigation files for the 2008 death of Daniel Lee Humprheys, who was tased to death by a CHP officer. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some residents want an independent agency outside the county to investigate the allegations against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know how they could possibly investigate the sheriff's office regarding these cases because they're the ones that also handled all of the officer-involved cases” said Barbara Steward, a Stockton resident whose ex-husband, Daniel Humphreys, died in 2008 after being \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tased 31 times\u003c/a> by a California Highway Patrol officer. “I'm not sure how they can be impartial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In notes sent to county officials this month, Omalu accused the sheriff of withholding a report generated by the Taser weapon the officer used. When DA Verber Salazar -- then a deputy prosecutor -- shared the Taser report with Omalu two years later, showing Humphreys was shocked for 2½ minutes, Omalu changed his findings in the case from accidental death to a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward, who was married to Humphreys for 13 years and had two daughters with him, was working for the sheriff when he died. She and Humphreys had divorced and she had remarried. Steward retired this year.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nShe said that after the doctors’ allegations surfaced, she felt free to finally reveal what she knew about the night her ex-husband died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He (Moore) was aware of that case very early on when it was unfolding on scene,” Steward said. “As soon as that information (from the Taser) was downloaded -- which is a pretty instant thing -- I'm sure he was made aware of what that was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said an apparent lack of follow-up on that case by the district attorney’s office still bothers her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Steward wants the attorney general of California or some other independent agency to investigate the allegations against Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it needs to be handled by someone higher up,” Steward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement this week, a spokesperson for Attorney General Xavier Becerra wrote, “To protect its integrity, we can’t comment on, even to confirm or deny, a potential or ongoing investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations Fuel Calls For Independent Medical Examiner\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations against the sheriff, a growing number of physicians -- including the California Medical Association -- have urged the county Board of Supervisors to create a medical examiner’s office run by physicians, who would determine both the cause and manner of suspicious deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County, like the majority of counties in California, established a sheriff-coroner system for investigating sudden, violent or suspicious deaths, and all deaths involving law enforcement. Typically the coroner, who is also the elected sheriff, hires a forensic pathologist to conduct autopsies and determine the medical causes of death, such as a heart attack or blunt-force trauma. Then the sheriff determines the manner of death: accidental, suicide, homicide, natural or undetermined -- based on the autopsy findings and the investigatory findings of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the system say having an elected official determine the manner of death presents a conflict of interest, and creates a perception, real or not, that political pressure affected the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the public comment period at a Dec. 12 county Board of Supervisors meeting, Dr. Grant Mellor of the San Joaquin County Medical Society urged supervisors to take immediate action to protect the independence of forensic pathologists performing autopsies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is gaining national -- as well as international -- attention,” said Dr. Kwabena Adubofour at the same meeting, referring to reports and editorials in The Washington Post and texts he said he’d received from colleagues in London asking, “What’s going on in San Joaquin County?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DA Verber Salazar also urged the board to create a separate medical examiner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors Chair Chuck Winn said he’s waiting for the county counsel to investigate the allegations and determine if any laws were violated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winn said it would be “irresponsible” to make decisions until the board has all the facts gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Certainly we want to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to provide their input or side as to as to what's occurred and maybe what needs to be done in the future,” he said. “I think it's a little early to make any decisions as to what we're going to do until we have a chance to evaluate what the costs or the consequences the reorganization would entail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, for example, voted last year to restore the independence of medical examiners following allegations that the sheriff had interfered with death investigations by withholding evidence and pressuring forensic pathologists to change their findings. The shift resulted in an annual $800,000 increase to the county budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said he “would fully support separation” if the Board of Supervisors and the people of San Joaquin County want it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11638866/pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murder-cases","authors":["6625"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_22174","news_22173","news_19542","news_22171","news_22846","news_22172","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11633434","label":"news_72"},"news_11636262":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11636262","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11636262","score":null,"sort":[1513042445000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident","title":"The Officer Tased Him 31 Times; the Sheriff Called His Death an Accident","publishDate":1513042445,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Daniel Lee Humphreys was speeding on his motorcycle down a freeway in Stockton, fleeing from a California Highway Patrol officer, when he crashed. Humphreys, 47, staggered to the median and tried to climb over a metal divider. The officer shocked him repeatedly with a Taser gun and killed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been more than nine years since that July night in 2008, but Humphreys’ ex-wife, Barbara Steward, said his death is in her thoughts every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's something I probably will think about the rest of my life, because of the way it all turned out,” Steward said one evening in November, as she sat on her den sofa in a wash of candlelight. Steward talked about her 13-year marriage to Humphreys and the two daughters they raised together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it would have been easier for the girls, who were 13 and 18 at the time, to accept their father’s death if had happened naturally, or even by accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/12/CoronerObstructSmall.mp3\" title=\"Father of Two Died After an Officer Tased Him 31 Times; Sheriff Called It an Accident\" program=\"The California Report\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_6147.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But to know it was preventable, and it was so excessive, and then for nothing to be done,” she said. “I think that's what I struggle with every day for my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward said it still stings that San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner Steve Moore ruled Humphreys' death an accident -- especially knowing that his office had evidence about the Taser that was withheld from the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was only reported that he was tased twice and in reality he was tased 31 times,” she said. “I'm not sure how that can be overlooked or swept under a carpet like it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about Humphreys’ death surfaced last week when the county’s chief forensic pathologist resigned, accusing Sheriff Moore -- who oversees the coroner’s office -- of meddling in the investigations of deaths in which law enforcement officers were involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634854\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 491px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11634854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu.png\" alt=\"Dr. Bennet Omalu\" width=\"491\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu.png 491w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu-160x239.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu-240x358.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu-375x560.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bennet Omalu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Bennet Omalu -- best known for his discovery of a traumatic brain injury in football players and played by Will Smith in the movie \"Concussion\" -- raised the Humphreys case, along with several more recent officer-involved deaths, in memos released last week accusing the sheriff of repeatedly withholding investigative reports and certifying deaths as accidents in order to protect officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 22, 2017, memo -- one of several he wrote this year to document what he sees as wrongdoing by the sheriff -- Omalu said that in the Humphreys case, “information was intentionally withheld from me by the sheriff, in order to mislead me from determining the case to be a homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Humphreys’ death Omalu had been with the county less than a year. He wrote that he had initially thought the suppression of evidence was “an anomaly” but has since come to regard it as “routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Physicians Associations Call for Creating an Independent Medical Examiner\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The accusations raise questions more broadly about the independence of death investigations in a sheriff-coroner system, in which forensic pathologists work under a law enforcement officer, according to the California Medical Association and the San Joaquin Medical Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue of diminished public trust in the autopsy process is not new,” Dr. Grant Mellor, president of the county medical society, wrote in a letter to the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing related allegations in Santa Clara County, Mellor and the president of the statewide medical association, Dr. Theodore Mazer, called on San Joaquin County officials to immediately create an independent medical examiner’s office and remove control of coroner functions from the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin is one of 50 California counties that have an elected sheriff-coroner, while the remaining eight, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, have independent medical examiners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sheriff Calls Accusations of Interference False\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore has denied Omalu’s allegations. In a statement on Dec. 6, the day after Omalu’s resignation, Moore wrote that he had never interfered with forensic examinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would never try to control, influence, or change the opinions of Dr. Omalu or any pathologist working on a case,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County district attorney is investigating the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner's Office \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Evidence Withheld Distorted, Delayed Autopsy Results\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Barbara Steward and her daughters filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2009 against the state of California, the CHP and the officer who fired the Taser. In a deposition to an attorney for the family, Omalu described what happened when he conducted the autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu said the sheriff’s deputy investigating the death initially told him that the CHP officer who chased Humphreys to that freeway median fired his Taser “twice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu said he asked sheriff’s investigators for the Taser printout that shows the number of times the trigger was pulled and the length of each electrical shock. He said he kept Humphreys’ autopsy file open for six months, waiting for the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he couldn’t get a copy, he based his findings on the evidence available to him. He wrote that the death was likely caused by a head injury from the crash, and -- in the cover sheet accompanying the autopsy report -- he advised the sheriff that the death was an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu testified that two years later he got a phone call from the deputy district attorney assigned to the case. Tori Verber Salazar asked him if he had seen the Taser report. Omalu told her he hadn’t and, according to his deposition, Verber Salazar replied, “I thought as much.” She faxed him the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Omalu finally saw the 31 Taser discharges -- subjecting Humphreys to 2½ minutes of electrical current -- he no longer considered the death an accident. He amended his autopsy report to state that Humphreys had died from repeated electrical shock when police intervened. And he advised the sheriff that the death was a homicide. In forensic pathology, the definition of homicide is a “death at the hands of another.” The term does not ascribe motive or guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to California government code, determining the \u003ci>cause\u003c/i> of death -- what killed a person -- is the purview of the forensic pathologist, in this case Omalu, but certifying the \u003ci>manner\u003c/i> of death -- whether a person’s death is an accident, a homicide, a suicide, a result of natural causes or undetermined -- is the job of the sheriff-coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Humphreys’ death certificate Sheriff Moore listed the manner of death as an accident -- both initially and after Omalu advised him the death should be considered a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the Humphreys’ case last week, Moore told KQED he needed time to review his files on it before he could answer questions about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu’s deposition became evidence in the civil lawsuit that Barbara Steward and her daughters filed against the state of California, the CHP and the officer who fired the Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s attorney, Los Angeles-based Peter Williamson, said he is convinced the CHP and the San Joaquin County sheriff engaged in a cover-up. He said the CHP printed out the \u003ca href=\"#taserreport\">Taser report\u003c/a> the day after Humphreys’ death -- the same day Omalu performed the autopsy. According to a source close to the sheriff’s office who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, deputies there also knew about the Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot for the life of me fathom what the possible explanation could be for the withholding of that evidence,” Williamson told KQED, “other than that it was a not-so-subtle attempt to clear the officer from any wrongdoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williamson, who has litigated other Taser lawsuits, explained the weapon shoots two fishhook-shaped prongs that catch on clothing or skin and are connected to the device by electrical wires. Pulling the trigger sends an electrical current through the person’s body, spasming muscles and causing the person to collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Daniel Humphreys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went down and he never moved from the position that he landed in on the ground,” Williamson said. According to reports that Williamson reviewed, the officer “kept yelling for him to move one of his arms, which was pinned underneath him.” When Humphreys didn’t respond, “(the officer) just kept firing over and over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Humphreys’ death, Barbara Steward worked as a civilian employee in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. She has since retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting stiffly on her sofa, she said bitterly that she believes the sheriff buried evidence that Humphreys was killed with a Taser out of fear that it would make it harder for law enforcement to use the weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the sheriff had ruled this as a homicide, as it should have been...” Steward said, “it would have had such impact on law enforcement that he would have taken a lot of heat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Highway Patrol’s internal investigation cleared the officer of wrongdoing, but it was not released publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015 the state settled the lawsuit with Steward and her daughters for $1 million. In a filing summarizing the case, attorney Williamson said the withholding of evidence from Dr. Omalu prevented him from discovering “the true facts” of the case and “obstructed justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward said settling the lawsuit, rather than going to trial, spared her daughters from having to revisit their father’s death over and over in court. But she also regrets it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Money doesn't replace a person, it doesn't fix the wrong,” she said. “Had it been me, myself, I would have pushed it to the end, just to look that officer in the eye in a courtroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>DA Poised to Issue Report on Humphreys’ Death, Nearly a Decade On\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office also opened an investigation into Humphreys’ death, as it does with all officer-involved deaths. The DA did not file charges against the CHP officer -- and, almost a decade later, has not published a report explaining why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11633436 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar with investigation files for the 2008 death of Daniel Lee Humphreys, who was stunned by a taser 31 times by a CHP officer. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tori Verber Salazar, who was elected district attorney in 2015, said the Humphreys investigation was completed only recently. Lugging a 2-foot stack of binders into a conference room in her Stockton office, she said all the reports are there, just not public yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should have done a better job here and we didn't, and I apologize for that,\" Verber Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she plans to go over the results with Steward and Humphreys’ daughters before the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec 4, 2017, statement posted on Facebook the San Joaquin District Attorney's Office said she decides whether to prosecute a case based on an independent assessment, not on how the sheriff-coroner certifies a death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verber Salazar said there was insufficient evidence to charge the CHP officer with Humphreys death. She said that, given the high-speed chase and the officer’s suspicion that Humphreys had a gun, the officer was justified in his use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Urgent Calls for Reform\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dr. Omalu and his colleague, Dr. Susan Parson, who resigned from the San Joaquin Sheriff's Office last month, both documented other cases in which they say the sheriff interfered in their autopsies -- preventing them from going to crime scenes or withholding investigatory reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Omalu and the physicians associations, such interference compromises the integrity of the county’s death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Physicians have a professional and ethical obligation to place the patient’s interest foremost, even in death,” wrote the CMA president Theodore Mazer in a press release last week. “Allowing non-physicians to influence the practice of medicine in any way, shape or form, puts all patients at risk. ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two county supervisors have acknowledged the seriousness of the accusations against the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are pretty intense allegations,” said Supervisor Miguel Villapudua. “It doesn’t sound good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added, “I want to give the sheriff an opportunity to defend himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Tom Patti told KQED that county leaders are beginning to look into the sheriff’s conduct and, more broadly, the way death investigations are handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County counsel is reviewing our protocol and our standard practices,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patti said the county was already exploring the idea of adopting a medical examiner system -- in which a physician, board certified in forensic pathology, decides both the cause and manner of death, independent of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patti said he asked the County Administrator’s Office a couple of months ago to analyze what the change would mean for San Joaquin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at what other counties do,” Patti said. “We will certainly test the waters before we jump in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks before Omalu and Parson resigned, Barbara Steward was already convinced that the county should change how it handles death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clutching a tissue to dab away tears, she said she believes forensic pathologists should be the ones to determine both the cause and manner of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're the ones that know what kills a person,” she said. Then she added, the sheriff “just has too much power to misuse that final say.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"taserreport\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4310338-Humphreys-Death-TASER-Report-2008-07-27\"]\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Stockton woman says San Joaquin County sheriff swept evidence of excessive force 'under a carpet' in her ex-husband's death.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1617903788,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":63,"wordCount":2389},"headData":{"title":"The Officer Tased Him 31 Times; the Sheriff Called His Death an Accident | KQED","description":"Stockton woman says San Joaquin County sheriff swept evidence of excessive force 'under a carpet' in her ex-husband's death.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11636262 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11636262","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/","disqusTitle":"The Officer Tased Him 31 Times; the Sheriff Called His Death an Accident","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/news/11636262/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Daniel Lee Humphreys was speeding on his motorcycle down a freeway in Stockton, fleeing from a California Highway Patrol officer, when he crashed. Humphreys, 47, staggered to the median and tried to climb over a metal divider. The officer shocked him repeatedly with a Taser gun and killed him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been more than nine years since that July night in 2008, but Humphreys’ ex-wife, Barbara Steward, said his death is in her thoughts every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's something I probably will think about the rest of my life, because of the way it all turned out,” Steward said one evening in November, as she sat on her den sofa in a wash of candlelight. Steward talked about her 13-year marriage to Humphreys and the two daughters they raised together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it would have been easier for the girls, who were 13 and 18 at the time, to accept their father’s death if had happened naturally, or even by accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/12/CoronerObstructSmall.mp3","title":"Father of Two Died After an Officer Tased Him 31 Times; Sheriff Called It an Accident","program":"The California Report","image":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_6147.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But to know it was preventable, and it was so excessive, and then for nothing to be done,” she said. “I think that's what I struggle with every day for my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward said it still stings that San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner Steve Moore ruled Humphreys' death an accident -- especially knowing that his office had evidence about the Taser that was withheld from the forensic pathologist who conducted the autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was only reported that he was tased twice and in reality he was tased 31 times,” she said. “I'm not sure how that can be overlooked or swept under a carpet like it was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Questions about Humphreys’ death surfaced last week when the county’s chief forensic pathologist resigned, accusing Sheriff Moore -- who oversees the coroner’s office -- of meddling in the investigations of deaths in which law enforcement officers were involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11634854\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 491px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11634854\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu.png\" alt=\"Dr. Bennet Omalu\" width=\"491\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu.png 491w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu-160x239.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu-240x358.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/RS28180_Omalu-375x560.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Bennet Omalu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dr. Bennet Omalu -- best known for his discovery of a traumatic brain injury in football players and played by Will Smith in the movie \"Concussion\" -- raised the Humphreys case, along with several more recent officer-involved deaths, in memos released last week accusing the sheriff of repeatedly withholding investigative reports and certifying deaths as accidents in order to protect officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 22, 2017, memo -- one of several he wrote this year to document what he sees as wrongdoing by the sheriff -- Omalu said that in the Humphreys case, “information was intentionally withheld from me by the sheriff, in order to mislead me from determining the case to be a homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Humphreys’ death Omalu had been with the county less than a year. He wrote that he had initially thought the suppression of evidence was “an anomaly” but has since come to regard it as “routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Physicians Associations Call for Creating an Independent Medical Examiner\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The accusations raise questions more broadly about the independence of death investigations in a sheriff-coroner system, in which forensic pathologists work under a law enforcement officer, according to the California Medical Association and the San Joaquin Medical Society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue of diminished public trust in the autopsy process is not new,” Dr. Grant Mellor, president of the county medical society, wrote in a letter to the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing related allegations in Santa Clara County, Mellor and the president of the statewide medical association, Dr. Theodore Mazer, called on San Joaquin County officials to immediately create an independent medical examiner’s office and remove control of coroner functions from the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin is one of 50 California counties that have an elected sheriff-coroner, while the remaining eight, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, have independent medical examiners.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sheriff Calls Accusations of Interference False\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore has denied Omalu’s allegations. In a statement on Dec. 6, the day after Omalu’s resignation, Moore wrote that he had never interfered with forensic examinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would never try to control, influence, or change the opinions of Dr. Omalu or any pathologist working on a case,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County district attorney is investigating the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11633434\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner's Office \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Evidence Withheld Distorted, Delayed Autopsy Results\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Barbara Steward and her daughters filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2009 against the state of California, the CHP and the officer who fired the Taser. In a deposition to an attorney for the family, Omalu described what happened when he conducted the autopsy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu said the sheriff’s deputy investigating the death initially told him that the CHP officer who chased Humphreys to that freeway median fired his Taser “twice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu said he asked sheriff’s investigators for the Taser printout that shows the number of times the trigger was pulled and the length of each electrical shock. He said he kept Humphreys’ autopsy file open for six months, waiting for the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he couldn’t get a copy, he based his findings on the evidence available to him. He wrote that the death was likely caused by a head injury from the crash, and -- in the cover sheet accompanying the autopsy report -- he advised the sheriff that the death was an accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu testified that two years later he got a phone call from the deputy district attorney assigned to the case. Tori Verber Salazar asked him if he had seen the Taser report. Omalu told her he hadn’t and, according to his deposition, Verber Salazar replied, “I thought as much.” She faxed him the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Omalu finally saw the 31 Taser discharges -- subjecting Humphreys to 2½ minutes of electrical current -- he no longer considered the death an accident. He amended his autopsy report to state that Humphreys had died from repeated electrical shock when police intervened. And he advised the sheriff that the death was a homicide. In forensic pathology, the definition of homicide is a “death at the hands of another.” The term does not ascribe motive or guilt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to California government code, determining the \u003ci>cause\u003c/i> of death -- what killed a person -- is the purview of the forensic pathologist, in this case Omalu, but certifying the \u003ci>manner\u003c/i> of death -- whether a person’s death is an accident, a homicide, a suicide, a result of natural causes or undetermined -- is the job of the sheriff-coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Humphreys’ death certificate Sheriff Moore listed the manner of death as an accident -- both initially and after Omalu advised him the death should be considered a homicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the Humphreys’ case last week, Moore told KQED he needed time to review his files on it before he could answer questions about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu’s deposition became evidence in the civil lawsuit that Barbara Steward and her daughters filed against the state of California, the CHP and the officer who fired the Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family’s attorney, Los Angeles-based Peter Williamson, said he is convinced the CHP and the San Joaquin County sheriff engaged in a cover-up. He said the CHP printed out the \u003ca href=\"#taserreport\">Taser report\u003c/a> the day after Humphreys’ death -- the same day Omalu performed the autopsy. According to a source close to the sheriff’s office who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, deputies there also knew about the Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot for the life of me fathom what the possible explanation could be for the withholding of that evidence,” Williamson told KQED, “other than that it was a not-so-subtle attempt to clear the officer from any wrongdoing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williamson, who has litigated other Taser lawsuits, explained the weapon shoots two fishhook-shaped prongs that catch on clothing or skin and are connected to the device by electrical wires. Pulling the trigger sends an electrical current through the person’s body, spasming muscles and causing the person to collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Daniel Humphreys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He went down and he never moved from the position that he landed in on the ground,” Williamson said. According to reports that Williamson reviewed, the officer “kept yelling for him to move one of his arms, which was pinned underneath him.” When Humphreys didn’t respond, “(the officer) just kept firing over and over and over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of Humphreys’ death, Barbara Steward worked as a civilian employee in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. She has since retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting stiffly on her sofa, she said bitterly that she believes the sheriff buried evidence that Humphreys was killed with a Taser out of fear that it would make it harder for law enforcement to use the weapon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the sheriff had ruled this as a homicide, as it should have been...” Steward said, “it would have had such impact on law enforcement that he would have taken a lot of heat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Highway Patrol’s internal investigation cleared the officer of wrongdoing, but it was not released publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015 the state settled the lawsuit with Steward and her daughters for $1 million. In a filing summarizing the case, attorney Williamson said the withholding of evidence from Dr. Omalu prevented him from discovering “the true facts” of the case and “obstructed justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steward said settling the lawsuit, rather than going to trial, spared her daughters from having to revisit their father’s death over and over in court. But she also regrets it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Money doesn't replace a person, it doesn't fix the wrong,” she said. “Had it been me, myself, I would have pushed it to the end, just to look that officer in the eye in a courtroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>DA Poised to Issue Report on Humphreys’ Death, Nearly a Decade On\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office also opened an investigation into Humphreys’ death, as it does with all officer-involved deaths. The DA did not file charges against the CHP officer -- and, almost a decade later, has not published a report explaining why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11633436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11633436 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28086_IMG_6088-qut-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar with investigation files for the 2008 death of Daniel Lee Humphreys, who was stunned by a taser 31 times by a CHP officer. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tori Verber Salazar, who was elected district attorney in 2015, said the Humphreys investigation was completed only recently. Lugging a 2-foot stack of binders into a conference room in her Stockton office, she said all the reports are there, just not public yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should have done a better job here and we didn't, and I apologize for that,\" Verber Salazar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she plans to go over the results with Steward and Humphreys’ daughters before the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec 4, 2017, statement posted on Facebook the San Joaquin District Attorney's Office said she decides whether to prosecute a case based on an independent assessment, not on how the sheriff-coroner certifies a death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verber Salazar said there was insufficient evidence to charge the CHP officer with Humphreys death. She said that, given the high-speed chase and the officer’s suspicion that Humphreys had a gun, the officer was justified in his use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Urgent Calls for Reform\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Dr. Omalu and his colleague, Dr. Susan Parson, who resigned from the San Joaquin Sheriff's Office last month, both documented other cases in which they say the sheriff interfered in their autopsies -- preventing them from going to crime scenes or withholding investigatory reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Omalu and the physicians associations, such interference compromises the integrity of the county’s death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Physicians have a professional and ethical obligation to place the patient’s interest foremost, even in death,” wrote the CMA president Theodore Mazer in a press release last week. “Allowing non-physicians to influence the practice of medicine in any way, shape or form, puts all patients at risk. ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two county supervisors have acknowledged the seriousness of the accusations against the sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are pretty intense allegations,” said Supervisor Miguel Villapudua. “It doesn’t sound good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added, “I want to give the sheriff an opportunity to defend himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Tom Patti told KQED that county leaders are beginning to look into the sheriff’s conduct and, more broadly, the way death investigations are handled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“County counsel is reviewing our protocol and our standard practices,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patti said the county was already exploring the idea of adopting a medical examiner system -- in which a physician, board certified in forensic pathology, decides both the cause and manner of death, independent of law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patti said he asked the County Administrator’s Office a couple of months ago to analyze what the change would mean for San Joaquin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking at what other counties do,” Patti said. “We will certainly test the waters before we jump in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weeks before Omalu and Parson resigned, Barbara Steward was already convinced that the county should change how it handles death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clutching a tissue to dab away tears, she said she believes forensic pathologists should be the ones to determine both the cause and manner of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're the ones that know what kills a person,” she said. 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