It looks like Dr. Steven Hayne, the shockingly incompetent Mississippi medical examiner that Radley Balko
exposed in a 2007 article, has finally been
fired. I don't know whether to celebrate a small ray of justice in the world, or sob in shame that it took an American state this long to remove a medical examiner who was clearly putting innocent people in jail. The good news is that I expect that this means that some of his innocent victims will finally have their cases set aside.
Of course, so will a lot of guilty people, which is why law and order types (among whose number I occasionally count myself) should be even more upset at this sort of breach than the folks at IJ.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/08/radley-balko-wins-the-internet-farewell-steven-hayne/3925/
