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Apr 24, 2021 · The letter to the Maryland attorney general and others came from former Washington, D.C., chief medical examiner Roger A. Mitchell and was signed by over 400 doctors, according to The Sun.
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May 07, 2021 · Maryland’s attorney general confirmed Friday that an audit into the work of the state’s former chief medical examiner is underway. Attorney General Brian Frosh said his office is …
That prompted a letter to Maryland's attorney general, signed by hundreds of doctors, calling for an independent review of people who died while in police custody during the 17 years Fowler was the state's chief medical examiner.
The letter to the Maryland attorney general and others came from former Washington, D.C., chief medical examiner Roger A. Mitchell and was signed by over 400 doctors, according to The Sun.
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Raquel Coombs, communications director for the Maryland attorney general's office, said it had taken steps to wall off those involved in representing the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and its current or former employees, including Fowler, in lawsuits from any possible review.
The attorney general's office also represents state agencies and employees in lawsuits.
The Attorney General of the State of Maryland is the chief legal officer of the State of Maryland in the United States and is elected by the people every four years with no term limits.
The Attorney General has general charge, supervision and direction of the legal business of the State. He or she is the legal advisor and representative of the Governor, the General Assembly, the Judiciary, and the major departments, various boards, commissions, officials and institutions of State Government.
Fowler ruled that Black died because of a sudden cardiac event while struggling with police, and not because they pinned him in a prone position.
Contributed by Baltimore Sun (The Baltimore Sun) p. 1. The letter from Mitchell and the hundreds of doctors was highly critical of Fowler’s testimony, particularly Fowler’s claim that Floyd may have suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning, even though no tests for that were conducted.
Fowler said in 2008 that the standard was “intellectually honest” because he could not determine with reasonable certainty how the person really died. The standard was unique to Maryland — only Rhode Island and Massachusetts used the same standard at the time — and predated his 1993 arrival in the office.
One of Fowler’s office’s best known rulings came in the death of Freddie Gray, who they determined died from injuries suffered in the back of a police van. The autopsy concluded that officers’ failure to take care of him and seek medical attention made his death a homicide, and prompted State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to swiftly file charges against six officers.
His testimony was rebutted by a string of prosecution medical experts. Fowler declined to discuss his testimony in the Chauvin trial. The attorney general’s office is defending the state in the lawsuit brought by Black’s family against Fowler, the state and others. They have asked for the Black case to be thrown out.
Included in that time period is the death of Tyrone West, who died after struggling with Baltimore Police following a traffic stop in 2013. Witnesses and the officers themselves said there was a violent struggle between the officers and West, but the state medical examiner’s office ruled that he died from natural causes exacerbated by the struggle and the summer heat. That ruling played a significant factor in the officers being cleared by the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office.
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