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The Trials Of Pronouncing Antonin Scalia Dead In West Texas
Marfa Public Radio ^ | Feb 24,2016 | Marfa Public Radio

Posted on 02/15/2016 9:36:27 AM PST by FR_addict

... I was reporting from a candidate forum in neighboring Brewster County. Officials from all three counties were in attendance. David Beebe, the justice of the peace for Precinct 1 in Presidio County, was there, too. Shortly after 1 p.m., he received a request to handle an inquest for "a dead body" back in his county.

The call came from Juanita Bishop, the justice of the peace for Precinct 2, who is nominally closer, but she was at a work-related event more than 120 miles away in Fort Stockton.

Beebe responded he was also far away, too, busy at the political forum. The deceased wasn't identified. Bishop said she would find an alternate. In this border county, sometimes the dead body is an undocumented migrant. Identification can take weeks; death can wait.

Bishop contacted the third choice, Presidio County Judge Cinderella Guevara, who was also unable to make the drive to Cibolo Creek Ranch. Connecting with the county sheriff there, she officially handled the inquest - over the phone - pronouncing Justice Scalia dead just before 2 p.m. The Texas Code of Criminal Procedures allows justices of the peace to pronounce death via phone when deemed reasonable.

It wasn't until after 3 p.m. that the news started to make its way to the local officials at the candidates forum. Phones lit up. People stopped paying attention to the debate on the stage. I was sitting near Judge Beebe, and we rushed out of the school auditorium together. We drove straight to the only funeral home in the area, in Alpine - where there was no answer at the door. ...

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cinderella; scalia; scaliaautopsy; scaliacauseofdeath
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To: FR_addict

I noticed that too. I wonder how soon this event was planned after the SCOTUS decision stopping Obama’s Economy-Killing-EPA-Grabs came out.

And I wonder what it was that called Scalia’s son away at the last minute, so that he was not there to observe how things went down.


81 posted on 02/15/2016 3:15:31 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

Ritchie also raised questions about the marshals’ actions:

“How can the Marshal say, without a thorough post mortem, that he was not injected with an illegal substance that would simulate a heart attack…”

“Did the US Marshal check for petechial hemorrhage in his eyes or under his lips that would have suggested suffocation? Did the US Marshal smell his breath for any unusual odor that might suggest poisoning? My gut tells me there is something fishy going on in Texas.”


82 posted on 02/15/2016 3:17:01 PM PST by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: discostu

This judge can claim she had no clue that the way Scalia’s body was found contraindicates heart attack. The most likely cause of death is poisoning. See http://healthjournalism.org/blog/2011/07/reporter-explores-dying-peacefully-in-his-sleep/ to see why this was almost certainly cardiac arrhythmia, and Scalia lacked the causes for cardiac arrhythmia unless he was poisoned.


83 posted on 02/15/2016 3:17:54 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: discostu

Because Valerie Jarrett had said that Obama’s last term would be payback and they had judges ready to go. Because Scalia helped rule Obama’s EPA power grab as unconstitutional 4? days earlier. Because it was reported that Obama wants to make his “legacy” permanent. Because Obama said back in July of 2008 that he would be POTUS for “the next 8 to 10 years” and even if the North Korean or Iranian EMP attack happens when Obama is in South America with his communist enemies of America in November and December, the Islamist sleeper cells that Venezuela had been flying in from Iran on direct unchecked flights (and then laundered their identities so they would be OK even if they were captured after going through the door that Obama has been holding open for them) may have a difficult time finishing off this nation within the extra 2 years if America is still armed...

Those are a few dots that form the outline of what’s going on. There are a lot more dots that could flesh it out but I suspect you’re not really willing to listen anyway.


84 posted on 02/15/2016 3:23:35 PM PST by butterdezillion
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To: FR_addict

Get a sleep study done. You could have obstructive sleep apnea (no joke).

I did and I now use a CPAP machine.


85 posted on 02/15/2016 3:27:08 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: sauropod

Had one done 10 years ago. They said it wasn’t apnea, but partial obstruction.


86 posted on 02/15/2016 3:36:07 PM PST by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: butterdezillion; Ray76; bgill

Posted the Washington Post article.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3397479/posts


87 posted on 02/15/2016 3:39:43 PM PST by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
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To: FES0844

They specifically said they did NOT want an autopsy

See the family was in on it!

Inheritance

Another woman

A love child maybe

What does Harvey Levin say?


88 posted on 02/15/2016 3:43:39 PM PST by wardaddy (Boy the nasties are sure out in force here.....I hope someone is saving this...Trump Cruz that order)
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To: DesertRhino

“...Glad he didn’t take his last breath in the DC cesspool. Went to west Texas, saw a great sunset, had a steak, went to bed early and didn’t wake up. He deserved such a happy ending...”

That’s a really nice sentiment. And I am hoping that is exactly what happened as well.


89 posted on 02/15/2016 4:13:41 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: DesertRhino

Replacing Ginsberg wouldn’t change the balance of the court. And yeah, Obama may still choose her replacement after next June when they end their session.


90 posted on 02/15/2016 6:55:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: butterdezillion
If you knew half of what I know about what this
regime has done you would go absolutely nuts


91 posted on 02/16/2016 4:30:03 AM PST by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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