Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died after being beaten by guards at the Bay County Boot Camp on January 5. The boot camp is operated by the Bay County Sheriff's Department and overseen by Florida's Department of Juvenile Justice.

Dr. Charles Siebert, who performed the controversial autopsy on a boy who died after an altercation with guards at a Panama City boot camp, was put on probation today by the Medical Examiners Commission, which found he committed errors in numerous autopsies.

The commission, opting against a lower panel's recommendation to suspend Siebert, voted 4-1 in favor of probation and ruled that he should pay for a minder to double-check his work until the end of his term, which expires in June. Siebert said he would discuss the ruling with his attorneys, but has maintained that any errors were not intentional and were minor. Of the cases Siebert was rapped for: a 2004 autopsy report he signed off on that said a woman who died in a Hurricane Ivan tornado had ''unremarkable'' testicles. While the commission reviewed nearly every case handled by Siebert, it didn't concern itself with the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson, who was manhandled by guards at the Bay County boot camp Jan. 5 before he died. The commission held off on probing Martin's death since the case has not been resolved in the courts. Siebert ruled the death was the result of natural causes stemming from sickle-cell trait, a blood disorder primarily affecting African-Americans. A wide-array of experts bashed the finding, which Gov. Jeb Bush said ''defied common sense.'' Bush appointed a special prosecutor to handle the case and urged for a second autopsy by Tampa's medicl examiner, Vernard Adams. Adams found that Martin had died from suffocation, brought on by his rough treatment by the guards when they used ammonia capsules, apparently in a failed effort to revive him. No criminal charges have been brought, and attorneys for the boot camp guards say their clients are innocent anyway because they were following established procedures. The attorney for Martin's family, Benjamin Crump, said he had hoped for a more severe penalty for Siebert. Still, he said, it's a step forward. ''This is a very big statement,'' Crump said. ``The commission had a tough job and we're pleased they disciplined him for his dereliction.''