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The lawyer hired by the city to block the release of Amanda L. Wienckowski's autopsy photos called the images "horrific" and "difficult to look at.
If they somehow end up in the public eye, it would be an awful thing for the investigation," said Michael B. Risman, the former Buffalo corporation counsel retained by the Police Department to deal with the autopsy dispute.
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Prosecutors can use color autopsy photos of the three Pittsburgh police officers Richard Poplawski is accused of killing, an Allegheny County judge ruled today, but can't use a photo showing the exit wounds on one of them.
Poplawski, 24, is accused of fatally shooting Pittsburgh police Officers Eric G. Kelly, Stephen J. Mayhle and Paul J. Sciullo II, who responded to a domestic disturbance call from his mother at their Stanton Heights home in April 2009.
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BLOOMINGTON - Several jurors winced as they viewed autopsy photos Tuesday in the murder trial of Nicholas Brooks.
The badly decomposed body of Johnny Turnpaugh, 24, was found July 14, 2009, after neighbors reported a foul smell coming from his mobile home on Hibiscus Street.
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Prosecutors can use color autopsy photos of three Pittsburgh police officers during the trial of the Stanton Heights man accused of killing them, an Allegheny County judge ruled on Monday.
However, Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Manning said prosecutors cannot use a photo showing the exit wounds on one of the officers.
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Photo line-up - not unduly suggestive - autopsy photos.
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WEBSTER CITY - Jurors have been shown autopsy photos of the bruised body of a Charles City toddler who died while in her 15- year-old cousin's care last summer.
Edgar Concepcion Jr. is charged with first-degree murder, sexual abuse and child endangerment in the July, 10, 2009, death of
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WINFIELD - Somebody probably shook, pinched, punched and kicked toddler Logan Shane Goodall before he died, West Virginia's chief medical examiner said Friday in Putnam Circuit Court.
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An Indiana County jury Tuesday viewed grisly autopsy photographs and heard details of the fatal injuries suffered in 2008 by 19- month-old Leonard "L.J." McIntire during the first-degree murder trial of a Burrell Township man.
Allegheny County Medical Examiner Dr. Karl Williams testified at the trial of Joshua Turner, 22, that the child had numerous bites, bruises and ligature marks around his neck. Williams said the toddler suffered a broken left arm.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Connie Ayres lost her 16-year-old daughter in a car crash in 1996. The next year, she learned that a county morgue was using the autopsy photos in a slide show to help fight drunken driving.
Ms. Ayres' outrage helped lead to restrictions last year on the display of autopsy photos in Michigan, one of at least 10 states to enact laws in recent years to prohibit coroners from releasing pictures or other death records to the public.
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Two of the three children who died in a 2003 house fire died trying to escape the inferno while their father, who's accused of setting the blaze, waited outside on the lawn, prosecutors said Thursday.
Burns on the children's bodies, visible in autopsy photos, dispute the father's statements that he could not reach the children in time, said Assistant District Attorney Amy Mullaney.