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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Lois Goodman was in court six years ago, she stood accused of murder for allegedly bludgeoning her elderly husband with a coffee mug.

On Wednesday, she was the accuser, blaming a medical examiner of falsifying an autopsy report that led to her arrest, tarnished her reputation and left her in financial trouble.

Goodman, a tennis umpire who was on her way to officiate a U.S.

Open tennis match in New York in 2012 when police handcuffed her in front of news cameras, wants at least $100,000 for legal expenses and the ordeal she suffered for months before prosecutors dropped the charges.

Attorney Todd Thibodo told jurors in federal court that Deputy Medical Examiner Yulai Wang (You-lie Wong) in the Los Angeles coroner’s office provided no justification when he determined Alan Goodman’s death was a homicide not an accident.

Wang had omitted important elements about the death and ignored