Some of them have vigorously objected to a study, published just before the trial began, that measured bias among forensic pathologists, taking the unusual step of asking that it be retracted. Complaints of bias have long hung over the Floyd case. By then the Floyd family had hired two forensic pathologists, a white man and a Black woman, to conduct their own autopsies. But private autopsies are a routine stream of income for many forensic pathologists, and the association began to receive complaints, including one from one of the country’s most renowned forensic pathologists, Cyril Wecht. She consulted on the Floyd case for the prosecution.

Source: bd News24 April 15, 2021 05:48 UTC