Illinois · Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 (725 ILCS 5)
725 ILCS 5 § 115-5.1: In any civil or criminal action the records of the coroner's medical or laboratory examiner summarizing and detailing the performance of his or her official duties in performing medical examinations upon deceased persons or autopsies, or both, and kept in the ordinary course of business of the coron
What this law says, in plain English
This statute establishes that coroner's medical examination and autopsy records are admissible as evidence in court proceedings and defines procedures for their use, including when examiners are deceased.
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