September 23, 2004

Wayne State mentioned in an Arkansas invenstigation

An article about the investigation into the death of a man in police custody in Nashville, Ark. in 2003, mentioned that Wayne State faculty member performed one of two independent autopsies for the case. When the Arkansas Medical Examiner performed the autopsy on Larry \"Nicky\" Hill Jr., he found Hill\'s death to be natural disease processes and accidental circumstances.Toxicology tests found that Hill had a blood alcohol content of 0.14, well above the legal limit of 0.08. The Arkansas Medical Examiner\'s report also found pepper foam as the only link to police officers. An autopsy report by Dr. Werner Spitz, Wayne State University professor of pathology and Macomb County, Michigan medical examiner, concurred with the autopsy report released by Arkansas Chief Medical Examiner William Sturner.

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