January 27, 2005

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  Man wrongly declared dead

  
  

  By SARAH OVASKA, Staff Writer
  
  Medical examiner J.B. Perdue was startled when he saw the body he was examining take a shallow breath.

  
  

  Larry D. Green was lying in an unzipped body bag in the morgue at the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department complex Monday night while Perdue began documenting his injuries to certify a cause of death.
  

  “I had to look twice myself just to make sure it was there, that’s how subtle it [the breath] was,” Perdue said.
  

  Green’s status was upgraded — from dead to alive — close to two hours after he was hit by a car on a dark road.

  
  

  Emergency medical technicians declared Green dead and placed him in a body bag for transport to the morgue.

  
  

   

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