Embattled Bay County medical examiner Charles Siebert, fired from his job by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission but rehired on an interim basis by State Attorney Steve Meadows, will soon have his say.
The Division of Administrative Hearings will hear Siebert's case Oct. 24.
Siebert was fired by the commission in June after a probable-cause panel report found that he violated state law. The report said Siebert didn't do all he claimed he'd done in his autopsy of Martin Lee Anderson. The Panama City teen died a day after he was manhandled by drill instructors at a Bay County juvenile boot camp, an incident captured on surveillance video.
Siebert has denied all the allegations and has said the hearing, along with the criminal trial in Anderson's death scheduled for Oct. 3, will clear his name. Seven drill instructors and a camp nurse have been charged with felony aggravated manslaughter of a child in Anderson's death.