New York's top prosecutor says a suburban police department has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the jail death of a mother of eight.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman issued the findings Thursday in the July 2015 death of Raynette Turner in Mount Vernon.
Relatives had disputed an autopsy that said Turner died from an enlarged heart and chronic cocaine and morphine use.
Schneiderman undertook the investigation after Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave the attorney general authority in cases involving fatal police encounters. Cuomo said he hoped to do away with perceived conflicts of interest between local district attorneys and police.
Among those who asked Cuomo to empower the attorney general was the mother of Eric Garner, who died after a police chokehold. No officers were indicted in his death.
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