Candy v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “coroner’s report and death certificate ... create a non-binding, rebuttable presumption” concerning the facts regarding a death
• explaining that the coroner is “required to engage in quasi-judicial activity when inquiring into the cause of death”
• explaining that a coroner’s duties under Section 313.19 are quasi-judicial in character and concluding that the statute “suffers from no constitutional infirmities.”
• noting that under R.C. Chapter 2721, the Declaratory Judgments Act, the common pleas court “has jurisdiction to both hear and determine the type of factual questions raised in an R. C. 313.19 action.”
• a coroner's finding as to a deceased's cause of death is \an expert opinion on a medical question\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).