   **   THIS CASE WAS REFERED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER DEPARTMENT BY STAFF OF CABALLERO-WOODLAND FUNERAL HOME, WHEN CERTIFYING PHYSICIAN GAVE CAUSE OF DEATH AS HEAD TRAUMA, AND BODY HAD ALREADY BEEN BURIED.   BY AN APPARENT MISCOMUNICATION, THE BODY WAS EXHUMATED AND BROUGHT TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER DEPARTMENT  **
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     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S WIFE, ON OCTOBER 31,1996 P.M., THE DECEASED WAS SEEN BY A NEIGHBOR HANGING LIGHTS  AROUND HIS HOUSE USING A LADDER. HE LATER WAS DISCOVERED LYING UNCONSCIOUS ON THE GROUND, AT THE BASE OF THE LADDER.   FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO BAPTIST HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM , UNRESPONSIVE, VITAL SIGNS STABLE.  CHEST X-RAYS SHOWED A NORMAL CARDIAC SILHOUETTE WITH NO EVIDENCE OF PULMONARY INFILTRATE OR PULMONARY EDEMA.  EKG SHOWED NORMAL SINUS RHYTHM.  A CT SCAN OF THE BRAIN  SHOWED A LEFT PARIETO-OCCIPITAL LINEAR NON-DEPRESSED SKULL FRACTURE.  BI-SUBFRONTAL HEMORRHAGIC CONTUSION, RIGHT TO LEFT.     A VERY POOR PROGNOSIS FOR RECOVERY WAS MADE AND WIFE WAS ADVISED OF A POSSIBLE CATASTROPHIC EVENT. 
HIS PAST MEDICAL HISTORY PLAYING AN AGGRAVATING PART ON HIS POOR CHANCES FOR RECOVERY AS DUE TO A HEART CONDITION HE WAS CURRENTLY ON COUMADIN.  PAST HISTORY INCLUDED: HYPERTENSION, PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION, CARDIOMYOPATHY WITH MODERATE LEFT VENTRICULAR SYSTOLIC FUNCTION AND AN EJECTION FRACTION OF 35 TO 40 %, NON-INSULIN DIABETES MELLITUS.  WAS ALSO ON PROCAN, INDERAL, GLYNASE, GLUBURIDE, DIGOXIN, AND CAPTOPRIL.     HE REMAINED IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT HIS CONDITION DETERIORATING, UNTIL NOVEMBER 8,1996 WHEN HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 6:00 PM.