Longtime Medical Examiner Dr. Nizam Peerwani found his top deputy, Dr. Marc Kraus, made 59 mistakes in death investigations last year. Kraus was barred from performing autopsies in murder cases in November and left the office just last week. From our perspective and I m speaking collectively as the defense bar, it s really unprecedented,” Varghese said.
Defense attorneys say the revelations potentially raise questions about the prosecution of murder cases – past and present. Everyone is beyond shocked that this could have happened and now it s going to be raised in every case where the Tarrant County Medical Examiner has touched the file,” Varghese said.
Defense attorneys call for probe into troubled Tarrant County MEâs Office
By FOX 4 Staff article
FORT WORTH, Texas - Defense lawyers may have a reason to appeal a lot of convictions after serious questions were raised over the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
They demanded that county commissioners launch an outside investigation of the ME’s office.
The questions began with the number two doctor there –Mark Krouse – who botched several autopsies, including failing to find a bullet left in one man’s body.
Then a state district judge accused the Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Nizam Peerwani of misleading a jury in a murder case.
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Multiple Shots Fired at Apartment Complex in Arlington On Saturday Night
The Arlington Police Department responded to a shooting in the 4900 block of Long Beach Drive at an apartment complex on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 8:09 p.m. When officers arrived, they located an 18-year old man on the ground with an apparent gunshot wound. The man was pronounced deceased at the scene.
While officers were still on scene investigating, a few minutes later around 8:15 p.m., the Kennedale Police Department responded to a man who had been shot and drove to their city for help. Arlington officers responded to that scene which was in close proximity to this initial shooting scene at the apartment complex. Investigators determined that the man who had a gunshot wound in Kennedale was related to the shooting on Long Beach Drive. A vehicle was seized at the Kennedale location for further processing.
Lubbock County officials confident in Tarrant County Medical Examiner service as reports reveal issues
Lubbock County officials confident in Tarrant County Medical Examiner service as reports reveal issues By Kase Wilbanks | April 20, 2021 at 6:48 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 7:01 PM
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Since 2019, Lubbock County has used the Tarrant County Medical Examiner for autopsy services when the Commissioners Court decided to forgo hiring its own ME. Officials maintain the process has been a good one, despite reports of wrongdoing by a Tarrant County employee and the ME himself.
“We have the utmost trust in the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office,” Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish said. “Dr. [Nizam] Peerwani is widely recognized as being one of, if not, the expert in the field of medical pathology. So, we have very much a high level of trust.”