WINNIPEG — A court battle is underway over how autopsies on the bodies of six Manitoba infants should be conducted.
The lawyer for Andrea Giesbrecht, who is accused of hiding the remains in a storage locker, wants an independent pathologist to monitor the autopsies being done by the chief medical examiner's office.
But a lawyer for the medical examiner's office says the examiner has the right to conduct autopsies without interference.
David Gisser says there is nothing under provincial law that gives the courts authority over how autopsies are done.
Gisser says the Fatality Inquiries Act specifically gives the medical examiner independence and authority over how autopsies are done.
Giesbrecht, who is 40, remains in custody and sat attentively in court as the lawyers made their arguments.
