  ***   THIS CASE WAS REPORTED TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER AFTER THE DECEASED HAD BEEN BURIED IN JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE.  A DEATH CERTIFICATE WAS FILED AND LATER ON AN AMENDMENT WHICH INDICATED DECEASED SUFFERED A SKULL FRACTURE.  ***
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     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION, AND INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE DECEASED'S SON AND FROM CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER MEDICAL RECORDS,  THE DECEASED HAD A HISTORY OF HEPATITIS C, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, AND HYPERTENSION.  HE HAD BEEN HOSPITALIZED AT DOCTORS' HOSPITAL FOR URINARY TRACT INFECTION AND ON OCTOBER 24,1996 HE WAS RELEASED.    UPON HIS ARRIVAL HOME, HE WAS WALKING UP THREE STAIRS INTO HIS RESIDENCE WHEN HE TURNED AROUND AND FELL BACKWARDS, HITTING HIS HEAD.   FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER, WHERE HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE A SKULL FRACTURE WITH CLOSED HEAD INJURY, FRACTURE OF RIGHT SCAPULA, AND FRACTURE OF RIGHT 6TH AND 7TH RIBS.   DURING HIS COURSE IN THE HOSPITAL, HIS GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATED PROGRESSIVELY WITH COMPLICATIONS OF MULTIPLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS WHICH INCLUDED COAGULOPATHY SECONDARY TO LIVER DISEASE, RENAL FAILURE, LEUKOCYTOSIS, MULTIFACTORIAL STEROIDS, BLEEDING, INFECTIONS, UNTIL NOVEMBER 2, 1996 WHEN HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 12:24 AM.   
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     SINCE BODY HAD BEEN BURIED OUTSIDE OF THE STATE AND NO CRIMINAL ACT WAS EVIDENT, IT WAS REQUESTED FROM POLICE TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION ON THE CASE AND DR. LANDRIN , WHO SIGNED THE ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE AND POSTERIOR AMENDMENT, WAS ASKED TO COMPLETE ANOTHER AMENDMENT INDICATING THE MANNER OF DEATH AS AN ACCIDENT.   SHE COMPLIED. 