A coroner must summon a jury for an inquest if the death occurred in prison or in police custody, or in the execution of a police officer's duty, or if it falls under the Health and Safety at Work etc.

The office of coroner is, " in many instances, a necessary substitute: for if the sheriff is interested in a suit, or if he is of affinity with one of the parties to a suit, the coroner must execute and return the process of the courts of justice.

To become a coroner in England and Wales the applicant must have a degree in a medical or legal field, e. g., criminology or bio-medical sciences.

Local laws define the deaths a coroner must investigate, but most often include those that are sudden, unexpected, and have no attending physician — and deaths that are suspicious or violent.

Items discovered which fall within the definition of treasure must be reported to the coroner or a place designated by the coroner for treasure.

The other offices have specific additional requirements: candidates for prosecutor must be licensed to practice law ; candidates for coroner must be licensed to practice medicine for two years ; candidates for engineer must be both licensed surveyors and engineers ; and candidates for sheriff must have either a two year college degree or five years of supervisory experience in law enforcement.

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A coroner must not avoid performing an autopsy because he detests the stench of corpses.

A coroner must refrain from sitting comfortably behind a curtain of incense that mask the stench, let his subordinates do the autopsy unsupervised, or allow a petty official to write his autopsy report, leaving all the inaccuracies unchecked and uncorrected .”

In order to avoid any miscarriage of justice, the coroner must immediately examine the case personally .”

" This role was qualified in Chapter 24 of Magna Carta in 1215, which states: " No sheriff, constable, coroner or bailiff shall hold pleas of our Crown.

When the death is suspected to have been either sudden with unknown cause, violent, or unnatural, the coroner decides whether to hold a post-mortem examination and, if necessary, an inquest.

Some coroners hold office by virtue of holding another office: in Nebraska, the county district attorney is the coroner ; in many counties in Texas, the Justice of the Peace may be in charge of death investigation ; in other places, the sheriff is the coroner.

In 1933 – 47 he was city coroner, in which office he encountered and ignored criticism for refusing to offer public explanation for any decision not to hold an inquest.

The coroner was required to hold an inquest with a jury to determine who were the finders or the persons suspected to be the finders, " and that may be well perceived where one liveth riotously and have done so of long time ".

From 1873 to 1880, he fought against racially segregated schools as president of the Wilberforce Educational Institute and was appointed coroner for Kent County, Ontario in 1874, the first Black man to hold that office.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

The city's coroner, retired British Army Major Hubert O ' Neill, issued a statement on 21 August 1973, at the completion of the inquest into the people killed.

There is a general duty upon every person to report a death to the coroner if an inquest is likely to be required.

If an open verdict is returned, the inquest can be reopened if new evidence is found and presented to the coroner.

During the coroner ’ s inquest on Morgan's murder, Pete Spence's wife Marietta Duarte testified that her husband, Frank Stilwell, Frederick Bode, Florentino " Indian Charlie " Cruz, and an unnamed half-breed Indian had turned up at her home an hour after the shooting, and that Spence threatened violence if she told what she knew.

On the basis of the investigation, the coroner decides whether an inquest is appropriate.

Emo music has been blamed for the suicide by hanging of teenager Hannah Bond by both the coroner at the inquest into her death and her mother, Heather Bond, after it was claimed that emo music glamorized suicide and her apparent obsession with My Chemical Romance was said to be linked to her suicide.

A coroner's inquest was held as soon as a special coroner was appointed, but there is no known result of that inquest.

Place also insisted the inquest be opened to the public and press, and so cowed the coroner that he basically ran the inquest himself.

It was originally thought that she had died of natural causes, but an inquest ruled that she had died of acute alcohol intoxication, though the coroner stressed that there was no evidence that she had intended to commit suicide.

At the inquest after her husband's murder, Mrs. Dyson had been questioned by the coroner about these letters.

The coroner ’ s inquest heard that the angle of the bullet was consistent with a self-inflicted wound, and the inquest ruled that he had committed suicide.

During a coroner's inquest, Harrison denied knowing any motive for her suicide and told the coroner he did not know of the existence of a second suicide note.

At an inquest on 10 June 2009 the Westminster coroner declared that he had died due to cocaine intoxication.

An inquest of the deceased was held on 31 October by county coroner Benjamin Rooke at the local Artichoke public house.

As the result of a fourth inquest in 2012, an Australian coroner made a ruling that a dingo dog had taken baby Azaria from the campsite in 1980 and had caused her death.

In committing the Chamberlains for trial, the coroner who performed the second inquest and recorded findings as to the cause and manner of Azaria's death, stated that although the evidence was, to a large degree, circumstantial, a jury properly instructed could arrive at a verdict ; with regard to the clothing evidence, he surmised that the Chamberlains knew dingos were in the area, attempted to simulate a dingo attack, recovered Azaria's buried body, removed her clothing, damaged it by cutting, rubbed it in vegetation and deposited the clothes for later recovery.

The inquest was opened on 10 September at the Working Lad's Institute, Whitechapel, by local coroner Wynne Edwin Baxter.

The coroner at Nichols ' inquest, which began on 1 September at the Working Lads ' Institute on Whitechapel Road, was Wynne Edwin Baxter.

The coroner explains to Felix that, as Alys was a fan of Taverner, her use of the drug caused Taverner to be transported to a parallel universe where he no longer existed.

This reflects the role of a coroner: to determine the cause of death of a deceased in cases where the death was sudden, unexpected, occurred abroad, was suspicious in any way, or happened while the person was under the control of central authority ( e. g., in police custody ).

In Georgia, the coroner has the same powers as a county sheriff to execute arrest warrants and serve process, and in certain situations where there is no sheriff ( described in Title 15, Chapter 16, Section 8 of Georgia law ), s / he officially acts as sheriff for the county.

According to Monarrez Fargoso, the categorization of serial femicide includes, " the location where the victim was found, generally a vacant locality ; if the coroner ’ s report indicated a rape had occurred ; when no such information was available, the fact that the body was unclothed, the state in which the body was left as well as the various tortures or mutilations the body was subjected to.

The post of coroner is ancient, dating from the 11th century, and coroners still sit today to determine the cause of death in situations where people have died in potentially suspicious circumstances, abroad, or in the care of central authority.

Most of these provinces and territories have a coroner system where coroners need not be medically trained, except in Ontario.

Their duties extended to acting as the coroner in the case of fatal accidents, where a specially summoned jury of twelve or thirteen local miners decided the cause of death.

In 1997, Yearwood began playing a recurring role on the CBS military drama, JAG, where she played Lieutenant Commander Teresa Coulter, a Navy coroner and forensic specialist, who develops feelings for one of the main characters.

After Samantha dies in Paul's arms, her body is seen in the morgue, where the coroner has just finished his autopsy and has pulled the sheet over her body.

Referring to a case in 1589, where one Richard Vale was both Coroner of the Queen's Household and one of the coroners for Middlesex, Sir Edward Coke reported that, despite Vale having presided alone where two coroners would have been expected, " it was resolved that the indictment was well taken, for the intent and meaning of the act was performed, and the mischief recited in the act avoided as well when one person is coroner of the houshold ( sic ), and of the county also, as if there should be two several persons.