 He had been the Chief Medical Examiner of Connecticut for nine years and, while a captain in the Air Force Reserve Command, served as chief of the aerospace pathology branch of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.Gross and his staff were accused by several defense lawyers and forensic specialists of producing misleading or inaccurate autopsy findings in police custody cases and giving misleading testimony in trials.On January 28, 1985 Mayor Koch and Governor Cuomo ordered state and city agencies to investigate the allegations against the Medical Examiners office and Gross.