Pubdate: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 Source: Bergen Record (NJ) Copyright: 2000 Bergen Record Corp. Contact: http://www.bergen.com/cgi-bin/feedback Website: http://www.bergen.com/ DRUG TESTS OF POLICE VICTIM ORDERED TURNED OVER TO FAMILY NEW YORK - A Manhattan judge Monday ordered the city medical examiner's officer to give the family of Patrick Dorismond, an unarmed man who was shot by police, reports of toxicology tests done on his body. State Supreme Court Justice Louise Gruner Gans had told the Dorismond family in May that if they filed the proper petition, they would be entitled to the report, which said tests showed marijuana in Dorismond's body. Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, the coroner of Allegheny County, Pa., said in an affidavit filed with the family's petition that he needs the report to determine the accuracy of the finding of marijuana in Dorismond's body. Wecht, noting that the body is decomposing continually, said the report also will help him decide whether Dorismond's corpse needs to be exhumed. Dorismond, 26, a security guard, was shot in the chest by an undercover officer on March 16 outside a Manhattan bar. Police said he got angry and hit one of the officers after the cops asked where they could buy marijuana. After the public outcry over the shooting, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani publicized the Brooklyn native's juvenile arrest record and an autopsy report that included the positive toxicology test for marijuana. In April, Dorismond family lawyers asked the court to let them see reports from the autopsy and toxicology tests. They said they needed the information for wrongful death lawsuits they planned to file. - --- MAP posted-by: Derek