Thanks for posting the additional info, Bricker. What a weird coincidence: necrophiliac morgue worker screws up a murder prosecution, leading to a wrongful capital murder conviction.
I don’t see why not. It’s pretty much a dead-end career.
That’s one of those events that someone might throw out as a sarcastic rejoinder: “Sure, anything is possible. Maybe a Star Trek transporter placed your semen there! Or maybe a necrophiliac morgue worker with your exact blood type was on duty that night! Is that what happened?”
Um… yes?
So we shouldn’t blame him for starting at the bottom and getting himself on top? 
The obligatory Hudson & Landry Ajax Mortuary link.
Or this one.
Everyone wants their wedding to be memorable …
Seriously folks, what is the problem here? OK, the dude is a bit flaky, sexually speaking, but in somebody’s eyes, we all are.
What if the headline had said “Morgue worker admits to blowing his nose on the sheets covering 100 corpses”. So what?
Who is the victim to these “crimes”?
You mean, other than the guy sitting on death row because this fellow literally fucked with the evidence? 
He was blowing something.
Ew.
Necrophilia apologist? Really? Is that even a thing?
And . . . they’d do the rest? (Shudder)
OK, if you’re cool with making that kind of organ donation after you’ve kicked the bucket, just make a note on the back of your license.
It was Douglas who was donating his organ.
“My wife is so bad in bed, after we have sex, I draw a chalk outline around her.” - Rodney Dangerfield
Because the employer knew and approved? Because it was part of his possible job duties?
Was he a generous lover who made sure his partners finished first? I think maybe not.
If factual innocence isn’t enough to impress the current SCOTUS majority, why should they really care about degree and aggravating circumstances? Modern conservative jurisprudence doesn’t give a shit about getting it the facts right, but rather blaming the weaker party and getting it over with.
Suuuuurre.
Riley v. California. Guess California was the weaker party.
Finished what first? Breathing? Yup, they all did that.
I doubt his ‘girlfriends’ orgasmed though as they were all a bit frigid. Literally.
You must have missed The People of the State of California v. Richard Tom that came down last week. Now in California, you must say “Mother May I exercise the right to remain silent” before the fifth amendment applies.
Blackstone knew 250 years ago that any kind of detention was an arrest initiating rights, but modern courts know the founders meant differently because it suits their particular interest.
I’m much more disturbed by what someone like Steven Hayne was allowed to do to bodies (and the living).
He didn’t do anything to the living. They’re too…warm.
(Still a “Ewww” factor, of course. )
At common law, defilement of a corpse was a crime. I believe it’s usually been kept as an offence in statutory criminal codes.
It’s based on respect for the dead, and also, i would argue the deceased’s survivors. Even though the individual has checked out, that body once was a living, breathing person. For the relatives, it doesn’t suddenly just become a bit of organic matter that needs to be disposed of in a sanitary fashion. It’s the last remains I someone who once was a key part of their lives. If you’re looking for a victim of the act, look to the relatives.
That respect for the dead is deeply engrained in the human spirit, and anti-defilement laws recognise that.