     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF CEREBRAL PALSY AND ENCEPHALOPATHY.  SHE  WAS A WARD OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND RESIDED AT THE MIAMI CEREBRAL PALSY RESIDENTIAL CENTER.  ON JULY 12, 1996 SHE WAS LAST SEEN ALIVE IN HER ROOM ABOUT 11:10 PM BY HER NURSE.  AT 11:34 PM THE NURSE WENT TO CHECK ON HER AGAIN AND FOUND HER NOT BREATHING.  CPR WAS INITIATED UNTIL RESCUE ARRIVED, BUT TO NO AVAIL AND SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.  
     SHE WAS ALSO PROFOUNDLY RETARDED, NON-VERBAL, NON-AMBULATORY AND TOTALLY INCONTINENT.  SHE WAS UNDER THE CARE OF DR. CABRERA (540-6052).

     *ON JULY 31, 1996 MS. MAIDEN OF THE CEREBRAL PALSY RESIDENTIAL CENTER ADVISED HRS WAS REQUESTING AN AUTOPSY BE PERFORMED ON DECEASED, BECAUSE SHE WAS UNDER HRS' CUSTODY AND THAT AN AUTOPSY IS PART OF THEIR PROTOCOL.  HRS WAS NOTIFIED THAT AN AUTOPSY WILLL BE PERFORMED ON AUGUST 1, 1996.*