Emberly Mclean News Today

Emberly McLean-Bernard, born six weeks premature in rural Mississippi, weighed less than 2.2 kilogrammes when doctors sent her home. She did not cry and barely ate, her mother said, and not two days elapsed before she began to gasp for breath. Jocelyn McLean rushed her daughter to the nearest emergency room, but the baby was already turning blue.

Disastrous errors by medical examiners have raised questions about whether they are influenced by prejudgments and a close relationship with the police.