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Stages of Medico-Legal Investigation

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  1. Crime Scene Investigation
  2. Autopsy
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It is the conduct of processes, more particularly, the recognition, handling, preservation and documentation of physical evidence to include the identification and interview of witnesses and the arrest of suspect/s at the crime scene, the manner the criminal act was executed, and such other things that may be useful in the prosecution of the case.

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CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

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The area is blocked out in the form of a rectangle. The searcher proceeds slowly at the same pace along the path parallel to one side of the rectangle.

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Strip Method

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Methods of Conducting a Search

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  1. Strip Method
  2. Double Strip or Grid Method
  3. Spiral Method
  4. Wheel/Ray Method
  5. Zone Method
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This search is a modification of the strip search method. The searchers will
traverse first parallel to the base and then parallel to the side.

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Double Strip or Grid Method

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The searchers follow each other in the path in the spiral manner beginning from the center towards the outside or vice versa.

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Spiral Method

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The searchers gather at the center and proceed outwards along radii or spokes.

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Wheel/Ray Method

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Whole area is divided into subdivisions or quadrants and search is made in the individual quadrants.

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Zone Method

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It is a comprehensive study of a dead body, performed by a trained physician employing recognized dissection procedure and techniques. It includes removal of tissues for further examination.

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Autopsy

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It refers to an external examination of a dead body without incision being made, although blood and other body fluids may be collected for examination.

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Post-mortem Examination

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Kinds of Autopsy

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a. Hospital or Non-official Autopsy
b. Medico-legal or Official Autopsy

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An autopsy is called a ____ if after all efforts, including gross and microscopic studies and toxicological analyses, fail to reveal a cause of death. It is an autopsy which after a meticulous examination with the aid of other examinations does not yield any definite cause of death.

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Negative Autopsy

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An autopsy wherein no cause of death is found on account of imprudence, negligence, lack of skill or lack of foresight of the examiner. The act or omission which may be inadvertent or deliberate may be:

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Negligent Autopsy

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Animal bites, injection marks, electrical necrosis may be overlooked in a hasty external examination.

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Failure to make a thorough external examination

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Condition of the organs, presence of air in pneumothorax or bubbles of air in the circulatory system may remain unnoticed by the pathologist.

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Inadequate or improper internal examinations

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Tissue blocks may not be taken in the proper areas, poor preparation of
the microscopic slides and improper lighting during the process of examination may lead to an erroneous
interpretation.

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Improper histological examination

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A qualitative and quantitative determination of toxic materials
or its metabolites must be shown. Sometimes difficulty is encountered by the forensic chemist because of the lapse of time and rapid elimination of the drug.

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Lack of toxicological or other laboratory aids

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The examiner must have had vast experience in autopsy investigation and must have the capacity to distinguish pathological changes in the body tissues.

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Pathologist Incompetence

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CAUSES OF DEATH

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  1. Immediate (Primary) Cause of Death
  2. The Proximate (Secondary) Cause of Death
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MEDICO-LEGAL CLASSIFICATION OF THE CAUSES OF DEATH

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a. Natural Death
b. Violent Death

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Penal Classification of Violent Deaths

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  1. Accidental Death
  2. Negligent Death
  3. Suicidal Death
  4. Parricidal Death
  5. Infanticidal Death
  6. Murder
  7. Homicidal Death
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This is death caused by a natural disease condition in the body. The disease may develop spontaneously,
or it might have been a consequence of physical injury inflicted prior to its development. If a natural disease
developed without the intervention of the felonious acts of another person, no one can be held responsible for the
death.

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Natural Death

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are those due to injuries inflicted in the body by some forms of outside force. The physical injury must be the proximate cause of death.

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Violent Death

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Death due to misadventure or accident. An accident is something that happens outside the sway of our will, and although it comes about through some act of will, lies beyond bounds of human foreseeable consequences.

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Accidental Death

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Accidental Death Elements of the Provision:

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(a) A person is performing a lawful act
(b) He performed it with due care
(c) He caused injury to another by mere accident
(d) He is without fault and with no intention of causing it

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Death due to reckless imprudence, negligence, lack of skill or lack of foresight.

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Negligent Death

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is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death.

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Suicidal Death

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Any person who shall kill his father, mother, or child, whether legitimate or illegitimate, or any of his ascendants or descendants, or his spouse, shall be guilty of parricide.

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Parricidal Death

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is the killing of a child less than 3 days old.

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Infanticidal Death

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Any person who, not falling within the provisions of Article 246 shall kill another, shall be guilty of murder and shall be punished by reclusion temporal in its maximum period to death.

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Murder

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Any person who, not falling within the provisions of article 246 shall kill another without the attendance
of any of the circumstances enumerated in the provision of Art. 248 or Revised Penal Code (Murder), shall be deemed guilty of homicide and be punished by reclusion temporal.

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Homicidal Death

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Elements of Homicide

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a) That a person was killed
(b) That the accused killed him without any justifying circumstances.
(c) There is the intention on the part of the offender to kill the victim and such presumption can be inferred from
the death of the victim
(d) That the killing does not fall under the definition of the crime of murder, parricide or infanticide.

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Modern methods in the execution of death sentences have abandoned inhuman, cruel and barbarous means. Executions by garroting, decapitation by means of the guillotine and by drowning which were common during the medieval days are no longer practiced. The statutes of all countries state the legal procedure for the execution of death penalties. The constitution, like that of the Philippines, imposes certain limitations to the law making body as to the method to be established.

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Judicial Death

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Methods of Judicial Death

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  1. Death by Electrocution
  2. Death by Hanging
  3. Death by Musketry
  4. Death by Gas Chamber
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A person is made to sit on a chair made of electrical conducting materials with straps of electrodes on both
wrists, ankles, and head. An alternating current voltage of more than 1,500 volts is put on until the convict dies.

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Death by Electrocution

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The convict is made to stand in an elevated collapsible flatform with a black hood on the head, a noose made of rope around the neck and the other end of which is fixed in an elevated structure above the head. Without the knowledge of the convict, the flatform suddenly collapses which causes the sudden suspension of the body
and tightening of the noose around the neck. Death may be due to asphyxia or injury of the cervical portion of the
spinal cord.

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Death by Hanging

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The convict is made to stand in an elevated collapsible flatform with a black hood on the head, a noose made of rope around the neck and the other end of which is fixed in an elevated structure above the head. Without the knowledge of the convict, the flatform suddenly collapses which causes the sudden suspension of the body and tightening of the noose around the neck. Death may be due to asphyxia or injury of the cervical portion of the
spinal cord.

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Death by Musketry

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The convict is enclosed in a compartment and an obnoxious or asphyxiating gas is introduced. The most
common gas used is carbon monoxide. The convict will not be removed from the gas chamber unless he is
pronounced dead by the penitentiary physician.

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Death by Gas Chamber

35
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is the deliberate and painless acceleration of death of a person usually
suffering from an incurable and distressing disease.

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Euthanasia

35
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The above-mentioned Judicial Deaths are no longer applicable in the Philippines since the imposition of Death penalty was already abolished by

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Republic Act No. 9346

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Types of Euthanasia

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  1. Active Euthanasia
  2. Passive Euthanasia
37
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Intentional or deliberate application of the means to shorten the life of a person. It may be done with or without the consent or knowledge of the person. It is the putting to death of a person in compliance with the wishes of the person (patient) to shorten his sufferings.

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Active Euthanasia

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There is absence of the application of the means to accelerate death but the natural course of the disease is allowed to have its way to extinguish the life of a person. Consequently, the concept of orthothanasia and dysthanasia was adopted.

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Passive Euthanasia

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When an incurably ill person is allowed to die a natural death without the application of any operation or treatment procedure.

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Orthothanasia

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When there is an attempt to extend the life span of a person by the use of extraordinary treatments without which the patient would have died earlier.

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Dysthanasia

41
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It is the deprivation of a regular and constant supply of food and water.

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Death from Starvation

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Types of Starvation:

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  1. Acute starvation
  2. Chronic starvation
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It happens when the necessary food has been suddenly and completely withheld from a perso

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Acute starvation

44
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It happens when there is a gradual or deficient supply of food.

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Chronic starvation

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Wound

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It is a break or the dissolution in the continuity of the skin or tissues of the living body.

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Classification of wounds
1. As to severity:

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a. Mortal/Fatal Wound
b. Non-Mortal/Non-Fatal Wound

47
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Wound when inflicted will not endangers one’s life.

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Non-Mortal/Non-Fatal Wound

47
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Wound which when inflicted is capable of causing death immediately after infliction or shortly thereafter.

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Mortal/Fatal Wound

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Classification of wounds
2. As to the Kind of Treatment Used

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a. Contusion Wound
b. Hematoma Wound

49
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an injury in the substance of the skin, discoloration of the surface due to extravasation of blood. This is due to the application of a blunt instrument.

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Contusion Wound

49
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this is the extravasation of blood in the newly formed cavity. This is due to the application of a blunt instrument

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Hematoma Wound

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tearing of the skin due to forcible contact of blunt instrument

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Laccerated wound

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wound produced on the body by sharp edge instrument.

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Incised Wound

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wound produced on the body by sharp-pointed instrument (e.g. ice pick, screwdriver, nails, and barbecue stick)

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Punctured wound

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wound brought about by change of atmospheric pressure

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Barotrauma

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wound brought about by heat or cold

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Frostbite, burns or scald

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wound brought about by chemical explosion

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Gunshot or shrapnel wound

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layers of skin torn off completely or only flap of skin remains

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Avulsion

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wound characterized by the removal of the superficial layer of the skin brought by friction against a hard, rough object.

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Abrasion

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As regards to the Depth of the Wound

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a. Superfical Wound
b. Deep Wound

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wound which involves the outer layer of the skin (e.g. scratch or abrasion)

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Superficial Wound

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wound involves the inner structure beyond the layers of the skin

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Deep Wound

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one in which the wounding agent enters the body but did not come out or the mere piercing of a solid organ or tissue of the body.

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Penetrating Wound

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When the wounding agent produces communication between the inner and outer portion of the hollow organs. It may also mean piercing or traversing
completely a particular part of the body causing communication between the points of entry and exit of the instrument or substance producing it.

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Perforating Wound

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As regards to the Relation of the Site of the Application of Force and the Location of Injury

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a. Coup Injury
b. Contre-Coup Injury
c. Coup Contre-Coup Injury
s. “Locus MInoris Resistencia

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Physical injury which is located at the site of the application of force

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Coup Injury

66
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Physical injury found opposite the site of the application force.

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Contre-Coup Injurt

67
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Physical injury located at the site and also opposite the site of application of force.

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Coup Contre-Coup Injury

68
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Physical injury located not at the site nor opposite the site of the application of force but in some areas offering the least resistance to the force applied.

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“Locus Minoris Resistencia”

69
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Physical injury involving a greater area of the body beyond the site of the
application of force. It has not only the wide area of injury but also the varied types of injury.

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Physical injury involving a greater area of the body beyond the site of the
application of force. It has not only the wide area of injury but also the varied types of injury.

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Special Types of Wounds

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a. Defense Wound
b. Patterned Wound
c. Self-inflicted Wound

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Wound which is the result of a person’s instinctive reaction of self-protection.
Injuries suffered by a person to avoid or repel potential injury contemplated by the aggressor.

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Defense Wound

72
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wound produced by the shape of the instrument or object reflected in the body

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Patterned Wound

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It is a wound produced on oneself. As distinguished from suicide, the person has no intention to end his life.

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Self-inflicted Wound

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