BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan is defending her office from accusations made in a scathing note FOX25 obtained, written by a medical examiner, who says her office tried to bully him into not reversing his findings in the death of a 6-month-old Malden boy.
"I think that we were asking the appropriate questions and we asked for a second opinion," Ryan told our Sharman Sacchetti.
Ryan sat down Sacchetti and explained she was just asking questions when it came to Medical Examiner Peter Cummings wanting to reverse his findings of shaken baby syndrome in the 2010 death of Nathan Wilson. Wilson's father, Geoffrey, had been charged with murdering the boy in 2010.
"Those are hard questions being asked. There's a request to have the supervisor look at that. Do I understand how people can be disgruntled by that? Yes I do," Ryan said.
Emails we obtained show Cummings in September of 2013 wanted to change his ruling to undetermined after the defense found new evidence, even saying I think their case is compelling enough that I am willing to at least go undetermined at this point.
The note reads, "I told them I felt bullied and at times as though I was being forced to sign the case out in a way I did not think was honest."
It goes on to call her office "unethical and unprofessional" in the way it dealt with the case, and accused her of "me shopping," by seeking another opinion.
"The only thing that would be unethical is for us not to follow the evidence in a responsible way," Ryan said.
Charges were dropped, and the Wilson's have now hired an attorney to look into the case.
Lawyer Jeffrey Catalano said, "It's a highly unusual document."
Catalano said he's starting an investigation into what happened.
"If it's true that a medical examiner feels that those communications crossed the line and entered the realm of bullying or undue influence, then that's not how this process is supposed to work," he said.