Attorney General Brown Announces Findings of Independent Audit of the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME)

Sister of Tyrone West speaks out after audit finds 36 misclassified deaths in Maryland

A statewide audit revealed that dozens of deaths involving police restraint—including Tyrone West’s—were wrongly classified as accidental, natural, or undetermined instead of homicide. West’s family, who has long sought justice, now has their claims validated by the report exposing this critical misclassification.

State Roundup: Police custody deaths reclassified as homicides after audit; lawmakers confident they can override Moore veto of reparations study

POLICE CUSTODY DEATHS RECLASSIFIED AS HOMICIDES AFTER AUDIT: Local social justice advocates say they are “outraged but not surprised” that the causes of five police-custody deaths that occurred in Montgomery County from 2007 to 2019 were reclassified from accidental or undetermined to homicide following an independent audit commissioned by state officials. The audit examined 87 cases statewide handled by Dr. David Fowler, the former chief of Mar…

Audit Reveals Maryland Botched Dozens of Death-in-Custody Rulings

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent A blistering state audit has found that Maryland’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) misclassified dozens of deaths in police custody—many of which independent experts unanimously deemed homicides. The review, ordered after former OCME Chief Dr. David Fowler testified in defense of George Floyd’s killer, revealed that during Fowler’s 17-year tenure, the office frequently d…

Attorney General Brown Announces Findings of Independent Audit of the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME)

Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today announced the findings of the Office of the Attorney General’s independent audit of the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME). The 70-page report found that in more than half of the cases reviewed, the case reviewers disagreed with the OCME’s original determination of manner of death. The audit identified 36 deaths originally classified as undetermined, accidental, or natural that the panel …

Racial Bias: Audit Finds 36 In-Custody Deaths Should Be Labeled Homicides

Source: The Washington Post / Getty Last Thursday, Maryland officials announced that an audit into autopsies of in-custody deaths revealed that at least 36 cases should’ve been labeled as homicides.  According to AP, the audit was initiated as a result of testimony Dr. David Fowler, Maryland’s chief medical examiner from 2002-2019, gave for the defense in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer found guilty of killing George Floyd. Fowler…

Audit Reveals Maryland Botched Dozens of Death-in-Custody Rulings – The Windy City Word

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent A blistering state audit has found that Maryland’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) misclassified dozens of deaths in police custody—many of which independent experts unanimously deemed homicides. The review, ordered after former OCME Chief Dr. David Fowler testified in defense of George Floyd’s killer, revealed that during Fowler’s 17-year tenure, the office frequently d…