Snell v. Office of the Chief Med. Exam'r

**1005Emory G. Snell, Jr., appeals from a judgment of the county court denying his complaint for relief in the nature of mandamus. Snell was convicted of murder in the first degree, based in part on the testimony of a medical examiner who performed an autopsy on the body of the victim, Snell's wife. Commonwealth v. Snell, 428 Mass. 766, 769, 705 N.E.2d 236, cert. denied, 527 U.S. 1010, 119 S.Ct. 2351, 144 L.Ed.2d 247 (1999). In 2012, pursuant to the public records law, G. L. c. 66, § 10 (a ), Snell requested from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) twenty-seven categories of…