Different Forensic Principles

This paper will address three different forensic principles and they are: the medical examiner, a toxicology report, and the eyewitness statement. The article that these topics will be coming from is called, “Side by side, in life and in death” by Tyler Jett in the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The first topic I will be addressing is the medical examiner’s role in the case. A medical examiner is a medically qualified public officer whose duty is to investigate deaths occurring under unusual or suspicious circumstances, to perform postmortems, and to initiate inquests. In the article of the mysterious death of Andrew and Anthony Johnson, the members of the Hamilton County Medical Examiner’s office had to help police figure out a solid time frame in which the two gentlemen had passed. The records indicate that the Johnsons stopped paying their county and city taxes in 2011. So that helps the Examiners offices figure out a window of time that would help the investigation.
Toxicology is the use of toxicology and other disciplines such as analytical chemistry, pharmacology and clinical chemistry to aid medical or legal investigation of death, poisoning, and drug use. The primary concern for forensic toxicology is not the legal outcome of the toxicological investigation or the technology utilized, but rather the obtaining and interpreting of the results. In the given article it states that the investigators won’t be able to determine the cause of death until the receive the results of the toxicology report. It also states that the police do not suspect foul play but much about the two deaths remain a