Fahmy Malak

Gov. Bill Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, refused for several years to dismiss a state medical examiner whose controversial decrees included a ruling that helped Clinton's mother, a nurse-anesthetist, avoid scrutiny in the death of a patient, according to Arkansas officials and state records. The medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, "was sort of protected by the governor and the (state crime laboratory) board," state Rep.

Gov. Bill Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, refused for several years to dismiss a state medical examiner whose controversial decrees included a ruling that helped Clinton's mother, a nurse-anesthetist, avoid scrutiny in the death of a patient, according to Arkansas officials and state records. The medical examiner, Dr. Fahmy Malak, "was sort of protected by the governor and the (state crime laboratory) board," state Rep.

After Kevin Ives and his best friend were run over by a train, the state medical examiner ruled that they had smoked so much marijuana that they lay down on the tracks and did not hear the roar of the oncoming Union Pacific freight. Dr. Fahmy Malak's report said the boys slept as if in a coma, motionless, in identical positions, their legs across the rails and their torsos between the tracks, as the train bore down with horn blaring and bells clanging.

Olivia Jane Ward died of an undetermined cause, state records say. Police investigators said that she fell backward off a porch during a 1989 party at a cabin in the Ozarks.To her parents, she was murdered. They point to conflicting autopsies conducted 15 years apart and to witnesses' inconsistent statements. The parents, Mona and Ron Ward, didn't know she was going to a party. The key to what happened probably rests with the teenagers who were with Janie, 16, at the mountain cabin on Sept.