re: Our President is tweeting about ‘Psycho’ Joe Scarborough again!

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We all know what happened- the examiner’s report says so...

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Because no medical examiner has ever falsified a report to protect someone with power...

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The Arkansas State medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, was the first person to inspect the bodies. Dr. Malak's reason for cause of death was listed as "being under the influence of marijuana." He believed that the boys had smoked so much marijuana that they both put themselves in a drug-induced coma. Their deaths were ruled as accidental, as he believed that they were so out of it at the time, that they had laid on the railroad tracks and were unable to move. Of course, no one believed in Dr. Malak's cause of death.

Prosecutor Richard Garrett called for the boys' bodies to be exhumed for another autopsy. This time, a new pathologist was responsible for the autopsy. The pathologist had enough evidence to believe that one boy was already dead when he was run over by the train, and the other boy was unconscious. He also believed that the boys consumed only a fraction of the marijuana that the state examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, stated in his examination. Instead of their deaths being ruled accidental, the reason for cause of death was overturned. Their deaths were then ruled "probable homicides."

A third, and final, autopsy was later conducted on Don Henry and Kevin Ives per the prosecutor Richard Garrett. The pathologist of this examination indicated that there was evidence of stab wounds on Don's shirt. When the pathologist took a closer look at the body of Kevin Ives, it appeared as though Kevin had been struck in the head with what the pathologist believed to be the butt of a rifle, similar to that of Don's rifle he had taken hunting with them only a few hours prior to their deaths. The second autopsy ruling was overturned; their deaths were then ruled as homicides.

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Of course, Bill Clinton defended the medical examiner.

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This medical examiner is certainly trustworthy, a paragon of virtue...

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Erdmann’s recent indictment on charges of falsifying an autopsy and accusations that he performs “made-to-order” autopsies for police have defense attorneys scrambling to see whether his work led to false convictions.

Indicative of his efforts, Losch won the right to exhume the body of 72-year-old murder victim Hilton Merriman, claiming that Erdmann botched the autopsy.

In the hearing on their request, Erdmann invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 200 times in response to questions about the autopsy.

In the motion to exhume Merriman’s body, former Dallas County assistant medical examiner Linda Norton was quoted as saying Erdmann routinely performs “made-to-order autopsies that support a police version of a story.”

Norton said some of Erdmann’s findings are “so wrong as to be an insult to the intelligence of an average human being.”

Erdmann said he performed an autopsy on the 41-year-old man in which he weighed the man’s spleen. But family members asserted that the spleen had been removed several years before.

He has a fascination with carrying around body parts and storing some in his refrigerator.

Erdmann’s predicament has been complicated by the revelation that his wife, Joan, received at least $17,000 over the last two years for bone and tissue from bodies examined by Erdmann, according to records obtained by Millard Farmer, Losch’s co-attorney with the Legal Defense Fund project.

Sgt. Snow Robertson of the Odessa Police Department is still confused as to how Erdmann lost the head of a suspected murder victim.

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