General Discussion

In MS, Medical Examiners (MEs), who are always physicians, are not the norm. The old cronyism of coroners, who don't even need a high school education, do not need to have any [/i]background in medicine, public health or know anything about the human body, remains in place because the republicans of MS want it that way.

Coroners can be plumbers, landscapers, grocery clerks, mechanics. No medical experience required.

An excellent book "The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist," by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington (2018) pulls back the curtain on the corrupt, incompetent, often deliberately pre-ordained system of what passes for justice in cases of murder and foul play in MS. Their scathing rebuke of the incestuous relationship between MS coroners and law enforcement is staggering. People sent to death row on the flimsiest of "evidence" or outright fabrication and manipulation of evidence is nothing short of scandalous.

I seriously doubt that this young man managed to climb a tree with two broken arms and a broken leg and have the physical capacity to hang himself. But in MS, I do NOT doubt that the coroners could rule it suicide. No doubt at all.