[Medico-legal opinion in establishing "exposure to direct danger of death or grave detriment to health"].
This paper deals with the problem of competence of the forensic expert opinions on the exposure to "direct danger of death or grave detriment to health". According to the analysis of judicial verdicts and the comments of lawyers "direct danger" depends closely on the probability, time and number of occurrences between the behavior of the perpetrator and the threatening act. The competence of the forensic expert does not allow for the legal qualification of the act but for the assessment of from the medicolegal point of view, defining the threat and possible outcomes in a descriptive fashion. The assessment of "direct danger" should be the result of close cooperation between the judicial representative and forensic expert.
Jurek
Tomasz
T
Katedry i Zakładu Medycyny Sadowej, Akademii Medycznej im. Piastów Slaskich we Wrocławiu. tjurek@forensic.am.wroc.pl
Maksymowicz
Krzysztof
K
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