- In Texas, the medical examiner or justice of the peace has jurisdiction over deceased individuals where the deaths are not natural, or cause of death is unknown (Texas Code of Criminal Procedure §420).
- Medical Examiner’s Office personnel must utilize the OAG approved SAEK.
- Post-mortem sexual assault examinations and evidence collection should be completed by forensically trained health care professionals (DoJ, 2017). Evidence collection from deceased individuals is under the jurisdiction of the Medical Examiner.
- Consider organ donation procurement.
- Timing limitations are irrelevant for deceased victims so samples should always be collected if sexual assault is considered (DoJ, 2017).
- All possible samples should be collected in the deceased victim (DoJ, 2017).
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