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Autopsies In Court

**Definition of Autopsy**: Inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination

**Purpose of autopsy:** The Purpose of an autopsy is to determine the cause of death, the state of health of the person before he or she died, and whether any medical diagnosis and treatment before death was appropriate.

[] - We used Piratepad.net so all of our group members (Danielle Aguinaldo, Jasmine Coutinho, David Kibazo, Elizabeth Tran, Vicki, and Patricia Seun) could communicate, share our ideas, information, and thoughts immediately while being online.

** WHY? ** (why did we do what we did for this project) For our last project, we created our own court case video based on the Aja Johnson's murder Investigation. We looked through some different cases involving autopsies and we had ended up being interested with Johnson's case. A video seemed to be the best way to show the importance of autopsies, especially in court; and we all thought it would be fun and interesting to do. To bring everything together, David had pitched in the idea of making this wikispace in-order to have all of our information together.