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THE CORONER'S REPORT
At a press conference on May 23, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, who is also the Kern County coroner, released his office's 44-page autopsy and toxicology report on Silva.
The father of four died May 8, less than an hour after a struggle with several law enforcement officers who tried to arrest him after he was found sleeping on a street corner in east Bakersfield
The autopsy, conducted by pathologist Dr. Eugene Carpenter, concluded the manner of Silva's death was accidental, Youngblood said. The cause of death: hypertensive heart disease.
In other words, the coroner's report found that Silva died because he had a heart condition, not because of his struggle with law enforcement officers.?
"Other significant conditions" listed in the report were acute intoxication, chronic alcoholism, severe abdominal obesity, chronic hypertension and acute pulmonary cardiovascular strain.
Nowhere in the report did the pathologist assert that the multiple dog bites, multiple strikes from three deputies' batons, the fact that Silva's wrists and ankles were tied together behind his back, or the struggle itself were contributing factors in Silva's death.
http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x1891155809/Autopsy-answers-many-but-not-all-questions-about-Silvas-death
niyad
(113,701 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Sheriff is also the coroner.
I wonder if he's also the judge.
Robb
(39,665 posts)The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)And the mayor is a good friend to the sheriff department.
rollin74
(1,993 posts)in many (probably most) counties in California, the Sheriff and Coroner are combined responsibilities
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)while making no mention of the gaping hole in the side of the crankcase.
Skeeter Barnes
(994 posts)No word from them on this?