Nolan Wells' Medical Examiner Cleared a Deputy Now Serving WHAT?

The medical examiner sitting on Nolan Wells' sealed autopsy results has a history worth knowing before those results ever go public. In 2021, Dr. Staci Turner, Mississippi's chief medical examiner, ruled Damien Cameron's in-custody death "undetermined," despite her own autopsy documenting neck injuries consistent with compression from the deputies who restrained him. Three independent forensic pathologists, brought in by the New York Times and Mississippi Today, reviewed the same evidence and reached a different conclusion: homicide. One of them, Dr. Michael Baden, former chief medical examiner of New York City, put it bluntly — "homicide, absolutely."
A grand jury used Turner's "undetermined" ruling to decline charges. One of the deputies involved, Hunter Elward, is now in federal prison for his role in the Rankin County "Goon Squad" torture cases — a separate case that exposed exactly the kind of conduct Cameron's family always suspected.
Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer examines what that record means now that Turner controls the findings in Nolan Wells' case, why the district attorney sets the timeline for unsealing them with no deadline attached, and why Nolan's mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley, filed subpoenas the same day she buried her son. Attorney Ben Crump represented Cameron's family and now represents the Wells family — the same state, the same examiner, and a family that isn't waiting quietly for answers.
Scientifically sound or not, Turner's findings arrive wrapped in a credibility problem the state never addressed the first time.
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