Medical examiner of disputed boot camp death autopsy plans appeal

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Medical examiner of disputed boot camp death autopsy plans appeal
Bradenton Herald, United States - 4 hours ago

MELISSA NELSON
Associated Press

PENSACOLA, Fla. - A medical examiner who performed a disputed autopsy on a teenager who died after an altercation with guards at a Panama City boot camp, might finish out his tenure at Bay County without disciplinary action despite concerns about his handling of other cases, the state's Medical Examiner's Commission said Friday.

The commission found this month that Dr. Charles Siebert was negligent in performing at least 35 of 698 autopsies it reviewed. Commissioners found Siebert's work was negligent and that he failed "to perform the duties required of a medical examiner."

A three-member commission probable cause panel recommended he be suspended, but the full commission voted to order Siebert, who makes $180,000 a year, pay for his own supervisor until his contract expires.

But commission chairman Dr. Stephen Nelson said Friday that Siebert could tie up the disciplinary action in an appeals process that could last well past June 27, when Siebert's contract expires.

Siebert could continue to perform autopsies and collect his full salary while the appeals are pending.
>more:
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/15362582.htm

Say WHAT???

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. I think this is the same guy

who was an ME here in KC and got fired.

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2. Trying to find more on him, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Wasn't the ME in the Lori Klaustis' death (the woman who worked in Joe Scarboro's office) fired in another state prior to coming to FL?

The 'investigation' into the death murder of Martin Lee Anderson in January is still ongoing. So I've been checking the news to see if anything has happened. Have no idea why it's taking this long (being swept under the rug is a possibility), - and came across the news on Siebert.

Here's bits on his former autopsies that were reviewed by the commission earlier this month:

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The Siebert autopsies reviewed dated back to August 2003, when Siebert left Pinellas County to become medical examiner in Bay County which is located in Florida's Panhandle, including a 2004 autopsy report in which he said that a woman who died in Hurricane Ivan had "unremarkable testicles".

Siebert also conducted the autopsy of Shawn McMillen who died on Sept. 2, 2001 at age 26 of a gunshot from the gun of a state corrections officer. Tarpon Springs police labeled it a suicide, a determination supported by Siebert who was then Pinellas County medical examiner but Shawn's mother, attorney Michaela Mahoney, says her son was murdered.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/061506SpecialCircumstances.html

Siebert was also involved in the death of 18-year-old Michael Niesen. Niesen died on July 14, 1977, following an automobile accident in Clearwater. The official report of the Clearwater Police Department says that Niesen was ejected from his vehicle, was found unconscious at the accident scene on Memorial Causeway on July 13, 1977, at 9:50 p.m. by the first responding officer, Mark Cairns. Cairns' report says that Niesen never regained consciousness and died of head injuries sustained in the accident.
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/072906NiesenMurder1.html

Niesen's family, his brother John and mother, Mary Riley say the teenager was killed as the result of a retaliatory beating administered by police after Clearwater police officer Ronald Mahoney was fatally injured in the accident after Mahoney initially stopped Niesen to issue him a traffic citation.

Siebert reviewed the Niesen case in 2001 at the request of Pinellas County state attorney Bernie McCabe on direction from the Governor's office. John Niesen says that Siebert quashed the state investigation of his brother's death, supporting the finding of the first autopsy that contained an admitted error.
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>all found here:
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/articles/080906SiebertProbation.html