Shaun Kent
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Now, those are the first things someone has to make a determination.
People get confused and think every homicide is a murder.
The cause of death is the why, okay, or the what, if you will.
Homicide is a medical determination.
Murder is a legal determination.
The reason I bring all this up is in this situation, and I'm not saying I know, but I've seen situations before, and based upon these facts, this could happen that the medical examiner could not determine the cause of death
Heart attack, like what caused the death that led to a series of information or a series of things that ended up happening.
For example, if someone is driving down the interstate or driving down the road, they have a heart attack and then they go off the side of the road and their car crashes and it blows up.
or the manner of death.
And under that situation, they cannot say that it is a homicide.
The cause of death is the heart attack.
And if you cannot determine it's a homicide, it would then be hard to charge someone with murder.
The next thing the medical examiner must determine is the manner of death, Anushka.
And I understand as we look at it, somebody would say the following.
And when you're talking about manner of death, there are five things.
Why would somebody, just candidly, why would somebody on their own put their own body in a trunk?
There is accident.
There is suicide.