It's completel pants on head bonkers that coroners and medical examiners in most of the US are elected positions with no medical qualifications required.

And, like, obviously, you can easily cover up goddamn near anything if you're already going on the opinion of some weirdo off the street as to how someone died. Let's see, burn marks, rope marks around the neck, three bullets in the back of the head? He's black so it's probably suicide, that's what I'm putting on the report.