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Mar 18, 2006 10:27 pm US/Eastern

Siebert Stands By Findings In Boot Camp Death

TALLAHASSEE (CBS4/AP) ― He's been assailed for his findings, and criticized by outside experts of have challenged his decision, but the pathologist who has been widely scorned because he said an autopsy showed that a juvenile boot camp resident died of a blood disease says he's standing by his findings.

A second autopsy by another medical examiner and with a renowned pathologist attending found that the 14-year-old boy did not die of sickle cell trait, as the first autopsy determined, and even the prosecutor for Bay County has said that office no longer believes the death was from natural causes.

The chairman of a committee investigating the death held his head in his hands as the pathologist told legislators Friday that the boy died from asphyxiation and had bruises all over his body.

A video showed Martin Anderson being punched and kicked at the boot camp.

The pathologist says that teenager was probably already brain dead when he was taken to a hospital after the beating.

But initial medical examiner, Doctor Charles Siebert, said he witnessed the second autopsy and saw nothing to change his mind. Sickle cell is a usually benign drug disorder that affects mostly black people.

(© 2006 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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