
Mississippi Goddam Chapter 3: The Autopsy
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Do They Automatically Get an Autopsy?
Billy joe's family asked the justice department civil rights division to review the case. After two years, they completed their review and issued a press release. It stated there was insufficient evidence to charge the officer at the scene. We got hold of a d o j memo summarizing all the information they collected. And what they left out of their press release was one of their main findings. They believed doctor lewis got it wrong. Their pathologists said the shotgun was inside billy joe's mouth, and therefore it must have been a suicide. A suicide, that's definitely not what the grand jury found.
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