February 19, 2009
Jimmie
Duncan has spent the last decade on death row in Louisiana for the
murder of a 23-month-old girl. He ended up there partly as a result
of an autopsy that experts seriously question.
Go here to read the whole story, the latest chapter in Radley Balko's investigation into Mississippi-based medical examiner Steven Hayne and his colleague Michael West.
Warning: This story contains excerpts and imagesĀ from the video of the postmortem examination of Haley Oliveaux. Viewer discretion is advised.
Reason's archive on Steven Hayne and Mississippi's Criminal Forensics System.
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