CARROLLTON, Ala. (AP) - Alabama authorities plan to review as
many as 100 past forensic cases by a medical examiner whose botched
autopsy of a baby led a judge to throw out a murder charge against
the mother.
Pickens County Circuit Judge James Moore on Thursday dismissed
the case against Bridget Lee, a 34-year-old church pianist who
spent nine months in jail after being charged with her child's
death in 2006. An initial autopsy found that the baby was
suffocated, but reviews by six experts concluded the baby was
stillborn and no crime occurred.
The medical examiner who worked on Lee's case, Dr. Corinne
Stern, now works in Webb County, Texas, where officials are just
learning of the Alabama case.
Alabama's chief medical examiner, Dr. Kenneth Snell, said in an
interview he would review every homicide autopsy Stern performed in
during her 16 months in Alabama.
Stern was not at the hearing and has not returned telephone
calls or an e-mail from The Associated Press.
Stern left Alabama in 2006. Attorneys for Lee are considering a
lawsuit against her.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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