AMARILLO, Texas (KVII) — Potter County commissioners approved a contract with the Lubbock County Medical Examiner’s Office after the district attorney said he had “sticker shock” over the cost of autopsies.
During Monday’s meeting, 47th Judicial District Attorney Jason Herring said the county had a longtime agreement with Dr. Thomas Richard Parsons at South Plains Forensic Pathology in Lubbock until Parsons retired last year. Dr. Luisa Florez, with Texas Panhandle Forensics, then started handling Potter County’s cases.
“There was always kind of a gentleman’s agreement in place that when either Dr. Parsons or Dr. Florez brought in a new forensic pathologist, that before they touched our business or those cases that are going through the prosecutor’s office, they would provide the CV and all the qualifications for that doc before those autopsies were performed,” Herring said…