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Committee clears bill to prohibit sharing autopsy photos outside criminal case disclosures
Summary
First substitute to SB 82 would make it unlawful to share autopsy photos beyond the scope allowed in criminal cases; sponsor said the change responds to a prosecutor’s experience where autopsy imagery later circulated beyond the case and was used to market expert services to the distress of a victim’s family.
Senator Pitcher told the committee the bill responds to a prosecutor’s troubling experience in which autopsy photographs disclosed to defense counsel later appeared outside the case in a consultant’s marketing materials, causing distress to the victim’s family.
Nut graf: The first substitute…
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