Swickard v. Wayne County Medical Examiner

Defendant appeals as of right the March 23, 1990, order of the circuit court compelling defendant to disclose the autopsy report and the toxicology test results of Longworth Quinn, Jr. Dorothy Quinn, the decedent’s mother and the temporary personal representative of his estate, has intervened with this Court’s permission. Both parties have raised various arguments. We affirm.

On January 4, 1990, Longworth Quinn, Jr., the Chief Judge of 36th District Court, was found shot to death in his mother’s home, the victim of an apparent suicide. On January 23, 1990, plaintiff, a Detroit Free Press staff…