Overview
- Ramsey County Attorney John Choi announced Tuesday that six of seven cases deeply reviewed for McGee’s work are fair and will remain unchanged after a multi‑year investigation.
- One remaining case involves a recent plea and sentencing, and Choi said the county has shared the reviewers’ findings with the defense as the legal process continues.
- The county hired three outside medical experts and consulted the Prosecutors’ Center for Excellence and the Great North Innocence Project to review seven cases drawn from about 215 autopsies, a process that cost roughly $380,000.
- Reviewers flagged recurring problems with McGee’s courtroom language and report wording, including using legal terms like “assault” instead of neutral descriptions and overstating certainty, but they concluded those issues did not undercut the facts tying defendants to the crimes.
- Ramsey officials recommended clearer rules for expert testimony and more prosecutor training, and they urged other counties that used McGee over his decades of work to review affected cases given earlier court rulings and at least one conviction already vacated.