The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office — a county entity separate and distinct from the Los Angeles Police Department — served as the center of forensic pathology in the case, where autopsies of both Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were performed on June 14, 1994. Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran, who described himself as "the head doctor in the Coroner's office," testified extensively about procedures there, including how homicide remains were stored in designated crypt spaces after autopsy and before release, and how evidence was collected from the bodies before photographic documentation began. The office's work came under scrutiny when Dr. Lakshmanan acknowledged approximately thirty errors made by his subordinate Dr. Irwin Golden in the original autopsies, though he maintained none affected the determination of cause of death. Defense attorneys challenged the coordination between the Coroner's Office and LAPD, highlighting tensions over scene processing — criminalist Greg Matheson testified he prioritized his own evidence collection before the coroner's team arrived at Bundy, concerned about "disruption or contamination" from the handling involved. The delayed arrival of coroner's investigators, who did not reach the crime scene until hours after the bodies were discovered, became a recurring point of attack throughout both the criminal and civil trials.