title: [The Liland case. Medicolegal aspects].
abstract: In 1970 a 39 year-old man was sentenced to lifelong imprisonment (21 years) plus ten years of preventive detention for having killed two persons with an axe on December 22, 1969. The sentence was based upon circumstantial evidence and medicolegal reports which suggested that these persons had been killed on December 22 or early December 23. The accused had an unquestionable alibi for December 23. Re-examination of the medicolegal reports 24 years after the verdict demonstrated that the killings could not have taken place on December 22. Therefore, in a new trial on November 21, 1994, the accused was fully acquitted. Measures by which similar medicolegal errors can be prevented are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Patologisk anatomisk avdeling, Ullevål sykehus, Oslo.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torvik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000592:standards; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008318:Malpractice; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway
vernacular_title: Lilandsaken. De rettsmedisinske erklaeringer.