Is 'professor' who helped with Michael Brown autopsy who he says he is?

He certainly sounded knowledgeable and authoritative on August 18 when he presented the findings of the Michael Brown autopsy to a nationally televised news conference.

Baden, who conducted the autopsy, spoke first, and then introduced Parcells, saying he "has been instrumental in the autopsy evaluation."

"First of all, I'm Professor Shawn Parcells," Parcells said as he stood to address the reporters.

On his LinkedIn page and to CNN, Parcell said he's an adjunct professor at Washburn State University in Topeka, Kansas, but a spokeswoman for the university told CNN that's not true.

"[parcells] is not now and has never been a member of the Washburn University faculty," university spokeswoman Michaela Saunders wrote in an email to CNN, adding that at one point, Parcells spoke without receiving pay to two groups of nursing students about the role of a pathologist's assistant and gave a PowerPoint presentation and answered students' questions.