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Experts to review 7 murder cases handled by Minnesota medical examiner accused of false testimony

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Experts to review 7 murder cases handled by Minnesota medical examiner accused of false testimony.

Dr. Michael McGee 's work was called “unreliable, misleading and inaccurate” by a federal judge.

A joint team of lawyers and medical experts will determine whether convictions should be overturned.

McGee performed autopsies on cases from 1985 to 2019 , prosecutors say.

Jim Mayer , legal director for The Great North Innocence Project , a nonprofit that works to free wrongfully convicted people, said the harm wrought by McGee 's testimony could be far-reaching "They talk about where there's smoke, there's fire. This is a case where we are beyond the smoke phase. We've seen the fire," Mayer said. “The question is how far the fire has spread.”.

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