Med Examiner Blames Police

Not only was this one of the fastest (if not THE fastest) declaration of suicide we've seen in a long time, it's also the quickest in blaming the police - not from some play cousin wasn't on the scene - but from an actual government employee involved in the investigation:

• The medical examiner says, after a complete autopsy with two police detectives present, all the forensic evidence leads to suicide. The police department does not want to make that same conclusion, however, until it is ready to tell Michael Scott's family that a thorough police investigation was conducted.

  Tuesday, the medical examiner says that investigation began with the police breaking the law.

That is a hell of an accusation to make right off the bat. The body is barely cold and the M.E. comes out with "it was suicide" and "the police broke the law." And how did they break the law?

• "Moving the body from a scene without notifying the medical examiner is actually a violation of our ordinance," said Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Nancy Lynne Jones.

So the time stamps are off? We're pretty sure someone in 018 called the M.E. There wasn't any doubt the M.E. was going to want the body. Could we get some clarification on this? Because Doctor Jones is throwing out a bombshell here and remember, she works for an office that once declared that a TASER had killed a subject, completely disregarding the fact he had three times the lethal dose of methamphetamine in his system. All to facilitate a lawsuit.

She's hanging her hat on this tidbit:

• "This was a hard, contact-range gunshot to the head, which means the gun was held against the head and pressed into the head, which is something we see in suicides," Jones said.

Yeah, you see that in gangland-style executions, too. We're just throwing that out there. Has anyone seen a GSR report on Mr. Scott?