{"id":26700,"date":"2009-06-26T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/26\/jackson-coroner-cause-of-death\/"},"modified":"2009-06-26T19:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T19:11:11","slug":"jackson-coroner-cause-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/jackson-coroner-cause-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Coroner: &#8220;Cause of Death&#8221; Will Wait Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coroner&#8217;s preliminary report has come out, and it is vague.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than reporting, for instance, a simple heart attack\/stroke, the coroner indicates that there is no obvious cause (some physical, visible thing) of such a thing, and that actual &#8217;cause of death&#8217; will be specified only after toxicology screens and other tests.<\/p>\n<p>The word on the street (well, actually, on my TV) is that the multi-week delay the coroner indicates will mainly be caused by being really really careful so they don&#8217;t screw this up.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, SOP plus.<\/p>\n<p>Various sources are also indicating that Jackson has been, essentially, &#8220;clean&#8221; over the last few months or more, with respect to alcohol and drugs.  On the other hand, one of the main sources of that information may be a physician who disappeared from the scene when things got hot, and who&#8217;s car has been impounded by the LAPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coroner&#8217;s preliminary report has come out, and it is vague. Rather than reporting, for instance, a simple heart attack\/stroke, the coroner indicates that there is no obvious cause (some physical, visible thing) of such a thing, and that actual &#8217;cause of death&#8217; will be specified only after toxicology screens and other tests. The word &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/jackson-coroner-cause-of-death\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jackson Coroner: &#8220;Cause of Death&#8221; Will Wait Weeks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6WE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}