In the broadest sense, a medicolegal autopsy generates an evidentiary document that forms a basis for opinions rendered in a criminal trial, deposition, wrongful death civil suit, medical malpractice civil suit, administrative hearing, or workmen’s compensation hearing. Because any autopsy report can become such a document, all autopsies could be considered medicolegal. However, for the purposes of this chapter, a medicolegal autopsy is more narrowly defined as an autopsy that is performed pursuant to the provisions of a medical examiners or coroners act of a state.