Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
Skip to content
Godoy Medical Forensics
Helping attorneys understand medical records for a decade
Godoy Medical Forensics
  • Practice Areas
  • Criminal Law
  • Civil Law
  • About Us
  • Services
  • CLE
  • Godoy Team
  • Careers
  • Our Story
  • Submit New Case
  • Hightail Link
  • Testimonials
  • Tools
  • Contact
  • Blog
Godoy Medical Forensics

Medical Expert Witness Services

  • Practice Areas
  • Criminal Law
  • Civil Law
  • About Us
  • Services
  • CLE
  • Godoy Team
  • Careers
  • Our Story
  • Submit New Case
  • Hightail Link
  • Testimonials
  • Tools
  • Contact
  • Blog

Category Archives: Criminal Law

One Deadly Punch Leads To Prison

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Criminal Law, HomicideBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

  Our faithful readers may remember that I wrote a newsletter back in 2011 called “Can One Punch Kill” but it has been many years since then and I asked one of my nurses to…

Read more

Fentanyl: An involuntary intoxication defense?

Assault, Criminal Law, DUI, General Medical, Psych/Mental Health, Psych/Mental Health (Civil), ToxicologyBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

A strange occurrence at a Massachusetts hospital Articles by Forensic Magazine and New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Between 2012 to 2016, fourteen patients showed up at a Massachusetts hospital with a strange problem.  All…

Read more

Visualization of Old Bruises in Children

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Child Abuse, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, Elder/Dependent Abuse & Neglect (Criminal)By Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

Ultraviolet Radiation and Forensics In forensics, ultraviolet radiation is used to enhance injuries of the skin. It has been reported that ultraviolet radiation can help visualize an old bruise and can also estimate the shape…

Read more

Aging a bruise on Autopsy

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Child Abuse, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, Elder/Dependent Abuse & Neglect (Criminal), HomicideBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

Those of you who follow me know I have several posts about how you can’t date bruises by color, but there is emerging literature to show that bruises can be dated on tissue analysis: How…

Read more

Hypertension in Criminal Cases

Assault, Child Abuse, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, DUI, General Medical, Psych/Mental HealthBy Tara Godoy

In April, I covered delirium and noted that there are many underlying etiologies that can cause it. One of those etiologies is a condition called hypertensive crisis, or more specifically, hypertensive encephalopathy. If you have…

Read more

5 Things Criminal Authorities Should Know About… Psychosis

Criminal Law, Psych/Mental Health, Psych/Mental Health (Civil)By Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

This month we have a guest author. Thank you to Eleanor Ruth for providing this newsletter/blog post for us!  Psychosis is a condition that distorts attunement with reality. Throughout the years, there have been many…

Read more

What a criminal attorney needs to know about brain injuries.

Assault, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, DUI, Elder/Dependent Abuse & Neglect (Criminal), Mitigation, Psych/Mental HealthBy Tara Godoy

In April, I covered delirium and noted that there are many underlying etiologies that can cause it. One of those underlying causes is brain injuries, or intracranial processes such as stroke, tumor or traumatic injury.…

Read more

What role does Hypoxia play in Criminal Cases? {Assault/Trauma}

Assault, Child Abuse, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, DUI, General Medical, Homicide, Psych/Mental Health, ToxicologyBy Tara Godoy

For both prosecutors and defense attorneys, it’s often important to know the defendant’s state of mind to litigate the case. If a defendant has a medical condition or traumatic injury that could result in hypoxia…

Read more

Delirium: What role does it play in criminal cases? {DUI/Gen Med}

Assault, Child Abuse, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, DUI, Elder/Dependent Abuse & Neglect (Criminal), General Medical, Homicide, Mitigation, Neonaticide/Filicide, Psych/Mental Health, ToxicologyBy Tara Godoy

In many of our cases we come across symptoms of delirium and are asked to determine if they are due to the assumed etiology, like alcohol or drug intoxication; or from something else, like seizures,…

Read more

Involuntary Intoxication when mixing Cocaine and Alcohol…? {MH/Tox}

Assault, Criminal Law, DUI, Psych/Mental Health, ToxicologyBy Tara Godoy

What if someone knows how cocaine affects them, and they know how alcohol affects them, but not how they can affect them when taken together? The use of both cocaine and alcohol together results in…

Read more

How using a nurse can help you win your case.

Civil Law, Criminal Law, Practice AreasBy Godoy Medical Forensics, Inc.

The nurses and doctors at Godoy Medical Forensics offer medico-legal consulting in criminal and civil cases and we can assist you in your case development and at trial. In many cases you do need a doctor…

Read more

5 things criminal attorneys should know about…Bruises

Assault, Blunt Force Trauma, Child Abuse, Criminal Law, Domestic Violence, Elder/Dependent Abuse & Neglect (Criminal)By Tara Godoy

This is the last in the “5 things criminal attorneys should know about…” series where I highlight some areas of medicine that often cross into the criminal fields. This is not meant to be an…

Read more
←123456…
78910
11→
Godoy Medical Forensics
  • Practice Areas
  • Criminal Law
  • Civil Law
  • About Us
  • Services
  • CLE
  • Godoy Team
  • Careers
  • Our Story
  • Submit New Case
  • Testimonials
  • Tools
  • Contact
  • Blog
925 425 7182

© 2023 Godoy Medical. All rights reserved

Go to Top

Submit New Case:

Sign Up For: