Former Ramsey Co. medical examiner's testimonies under review
Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said on Friday that it's "too early to say" whether case outcomes could be reversed, but he did not rule out the possibility.
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Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said on Friday that it's "too early to say" whether case outcomes could be reversed, but he did not rule out the possibility.
Prosecutors will take another look at 71 cases in which McGee provided key testimony.
Dr. Michael McGee served as Ramsey County's Medical Examiner from 1985 to 2019, but now his work is being put under the microscope.
The Ramsey County Attorney’s Office is putting the work of former medical examiner Dr. Mike McGee under the microscope. At least 70 cases from his tenure are under additional review, according to a spokesperson for the Ramsey County Attorney’s Office.
A federal appeals court judge wrote that the doctor’s testimony was “unreliable, misleading and inaccurate” in the murder trial of the man convicted of killing Sjodin in Grand Forks in 2003.