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New evidence delays announcement on cause of Smith's death
Prosecutor seeks items taken from Bahamas house

By Paula McMahon
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted March 9 2007

Two new pieces of evidence have delayed autopsy results in the suspicious death of Anna Nicole Smith, authorities said Thursday.

Broward Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper planned to announce his findings at a news conference today, but a Wednesday meeting with Seminole police derailed his decision for at least a week. He would not reveal what the evidence is, saying he was asked not to.

"There's a possibility that there might be information in those two items that might affect my conclusion," he said, though he said he hasn't yet seen the evidence.

Broward homicide prosecutors are assisting Perper and the Seminole Police Department to determine the cause of death, a spokesman for the Broward State Attorney's Office said Thursday.

The circumstances of Smith's Feb. 8 death are considered suspicious but homicide prosecutors are assisting only with legal issues and questions, said Ron Ishoy, a State Attorney's Office spokesman. The inquiry is not a homicide investigation, he said.

~SNIP~ MUCH MORE AT LINK

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-cautopsy09mar09,0,5031744.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

From the article: "Calling this a homicide investigation would be wrong," Ishoy said. "We don't have a criminal investigation. My sense is he [Perper] knows what she died from and he wants to know the nature [of her death]." Ishoy said he could not comment on the investigation.

This jumped out at me. So the States Attorney is involved in this eh? OK calling it a homocide investigation is probably "wrong" but that's just because it's still an investigation and it involves a lot more than just homocide. So technically its not a homocide investigation but a homocide and other things investigation. But the investigation could lead to the suspicion of a homocide.

And as far as Dr. Perper saying this would probably not change his findings, how do we know what his findings were in the first place and so how would we know if he changed them. And i think that the part of "his findings" that he's referring to is "manner of death". Cause of death, he already has we're told. And maybe he put "unknown" as manner of death. But the cops told him "Noooot so fast". We just might know something.

"Shelley has hired two prominent Fort Lauderdale attorneys, Walter "Skip" Campbell, a former state senator, and Kelly Hancock, a former homicide prosecutor.
Campbell said he could not discuss many details of the case but said Shelley wanted police and Broward prosecutors to examine some evidence and address some concerns.

Cool!

Interesting. sounds like Shelley found some important stuff on her laptop.

Shelley has hired two prominent Fort Lauderdale attorneys, Walter "Skip" Campbell, a former state senator, and Kelly Hancock, a former homicide prosecutor.

Campbell said he could not discuss many details of the case but said Shelley wanted police and Broward prosecutors to examine some evidence and address some concerns.

"I really can't tell you about the investigation but there are some things that we think are very important that we think people should look into. No one knows what's on that laptop because very few people have seen it," Campbell said.