Synopsis

Monaghan pressed Quincy to expedite the autopsy of a young man caught stealing a car. A mutual acquaintance was alleging that an officer had pursued and killed him after they were pulled over in the stolen vehicle. The completed autopsy would reveal only that Billy Harris died from a fractured neck, offering no explanation as to how the injury occurred. This alone proved sufficient to ignite press coverage focused on police brutality, prompting a lawyer from Californians for Constitutional Right