[FR_addict]

Sounds like no one bothered to tell two of the justices that the body was Justice Scalia. They more than likely thought it was an illegal migrant who had been dead for some time.

[ghosthost]

I have never in all my yeas fallen asleep with a pillow over my face. There is the small matter of breathing.

[DesertRhino]

It really doesn’t matter if it was a supreme or not. The Justice of the Peace basically rules, “they’re dead” legally. They don’t have to go stare at the body. They don’t investigate it and break out their junior CSI kit.

No sense in someone driving a few hundred miles to do that. There are paramedics and a deputy there at the scene. The drama will never end from those who think this is a suburb of DC, but this is normal.

I guess for a supreme the could have waited for 3 or 4 hours for a JP to arrive and say “he’s really REALLY dead”.

[discostu]

It doesn’t really matter who the dead body was, their job is the same. And in these rural counties things work different, it ain’t CSI in the hinterlands, it’s a lot more Old West style, more Roy Bean. JPs get there when they get there and the process is very geared towards them not having to get there. It’s smoother now with cellphones, 100 years ago in these places it could have taken weeks for the officials to get there on their normal rotation and sign off on the paperwork.

[FES0844]

I’m surprised his family didn’t request an autopsy.