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Understanding Medicolegal Conclusions - AFI-LLC Newsletter December 2020
Agency Information & Principals' CVs - Expert Analysis / Consultations
Current information on our primary agency website for services, forms, and CVs.
-- At Your Service - www.DeathCaseReview.com/Legal-Investigations
-- Your Investigators - www.DeathCaseReview.com/Principals-Bios
-- Dean's CV - http://dab-cv.DeathCaseReview.com
-- Karen's CV - http://ksb-cv.DeathCaseReview.com
Karen provides Subject Matter Expertise on all Equivocal Deaths, and Dean has provided
expert consultations nationwide since 2010. He has been recognized by Colorado courts in
Forensic and Medicolegal Death Investigations generally in "the totality of the circumstances
of the fatal or non-fatal event and the competency of the official investigation, with respect to
death investigation protocol and standards."
Specific non-medical testimony has included as an expert in the areas of:
• Injury, wound before morphology, how wounds are created, mechanics of single edged instruments, bilateral
edged instruments, and mechanics of puncture wounds.
• Expert in criminal and forensic investigations, including death investigation and protocol standards as well as
related death investigation and injury causation; and Bloodstain Pattern Analysis.
• Patterned Injury Analysis
• Private Investigation Protocols
• Background Records and Investigations
Dean has been appointed in Colorado, Wyoming, Louisiana, Arizona and California in these areas and as an expert in
medicolegal / death investigations. In addition, Dean and Karen have provided private attorney and family consultations
in multiple states.
New Commentary: Understanding Medicolegal Conclusions in
Death or Serious Bodily Injury (SBI)
Cause and Manner is not exclusive to death investigations. Similar processes and findings
are used in SBI cases, and also civil and criminal cases, fire investigations, motor vehicle
collisions, and more. Understanding these two components, and their differences, is
necessary to understanding the roles of involved investigators and experts.
It is important to also differentiate between a medical manner and similar legal manner.
For example, a motor vehicle collision caused an intoxicated driver with a fatality will be
Accident, however, the legal finding – or charge – may be vehicle homicide. The Cause and
Manner of Death are both similar to the civil standard of a preponderance or statutory
standards of reasonable or probable; and are not the more strict criminal standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.
-- read the full commentary at www.DeathCaseReview.com/afi-llc-blog/understanding-medicolegal-conclusions
Associates in Forensic Investigations - Standards of Practice and Ethics
The issuance of a license does not provide assurance to a client of the experience and services of the investigator. The
basics to assurance are: 1) Licensed in the state or jurisdiction in which you are operating (if applicable); 2) Have a
permitted or otherwise lawful purpose; 3) Your activity must be lawful; and 4) Your activity and purpose must be ethical.
Read our Agency Standards of Practice at www.DeathCaseReview.com/standards.
Read our Agency Ethics at www.DeathCaseReview.com/ethics.
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