Hey y’all!
I’m so far behind and out of the loop! Did they inquest get started or is it delayed again?
We’ve learned the coroner’s inquest judge into the death of Anna Nicole Smiths’ son, Daniel, Monday was booted off the case for yakking to the press about what might happen.
You remember Chief Magistrate Roger (Don’t Go There) Gomez. Well, his boss, Supreme Court Justice John Lyons, ruled Monday he’s toast after popping up on television in an interview that “departed from accepted judicial convention,” according to the Nassau Guardian, the island’s leading newspaper.
Bahamas Inquest Judge Fired for TV Interviews; Daniel Smith Death Probe Delayed Indefinitely
Lyons said he just happened to catch the controversial interview while channel surfing, sources tell me, and heard the lower court judge waxing on “about what about what was going to happen or might happen” in the case. Read the Associated Press report and an excellent piece by the Nassau Guardian’s Senior Reporter, Raymond Kongwa:
Magistrate removed from inquest into death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son
Gone moms!
Totally disbanned. Lyons booted Gomez. No new Coroner assigned yet and a new jury will have to be picked.
Lyons stated the new coroner (magistrate) will decide if HKS can drill the jurors or not. So basically his appeal was denied but it can all repeat on the next go round.