CNN Just Reported That No Autopsy Will Be Performed on Scalia

CNN

[BenLurkin]

“Hold a mirror under his nose. Nothing? Okay prick him with a pin? Still nothing? Yeah, he’s dead.

[hsmomx3]

Don’t they have to be embalmed before transporting to another state? That’s what I have always heard.

[Doche2X2]

Isn’t an autopsy required by most life insurance companies? I would think he would have had a large policy.

[doc maverick]

Toxicology, cardiac enzymes, needle punctures, potassium level, succinylcholine levels.....just to name a few tests.
Yes, an autosy would be MORE THAN HELPFUL.
Who signed the death certificate and was that doctor even looking at the body?

[PghBaldy]

"We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled," said Poindexter."

http://m.chron.com/news/local/article/Texas-ranch-owner-recalls-Scalia-s-last-hours-6830372.php

[Blue Jays]

We are in for a rather rocky chapter in our national history if 0bama appoints someone to legislate from the bench and they orchestrate a way to overturn Heller and subsequently threaten the Second Amendment in the courts. Time will tell.

[Washi]

How can they tell he died of heart attack, then?

Because the local justice of the peace, with her vast medical training and with assurance from a federal marshal that nothing was suspicious, determined (over the phone) that Scalia died of a heart attack.

[BenLurkin]

I’m thinking their lawyers are waving off any challenge.

[dfwgator]

I won't believe it until I hear from this guy.

[Spirit of Liberty]

But would it rest, really?

Even if the autopsy came back as heart attack with no suspicious findings, there will be those people that will say:

1. the ‘murder’ was so sophisticated that no evidence was left.
2. the coroner was threatened.
3. the coroner was paid off.
4. insert your favorite conspiracy theory of choice.

[Hattie]

Back in Lyndon Johnson days here in tx we had a suicide with
two gunshots to the back of the head with a shotgun. Fact co Billy sol Estes.

[backwoods-engineer]

I think "rocky chapter" is the understatement of the year.

There will be blood if that happens.

[Old Yeller]

Gee, I’m shocked.

[RitchieAprile]

Javier Bardem was seen in the area?

[backwoods-engineer]

I’d like to know how that “suicide” was accomplished... maybe the deceased was a gymnast?

[Ray76]

> He was diagnosed with a heart attack by a Judge without even seeing the body.

Marshalls not protecting Scalia, they were not even at the ranch.

Pronounced dead over the phone.

No autopsy, in apparent violation of law.

Rushed embalming.

[dfwgator]

Guess he got the coin-flip wrong.

[Ray76]

http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CR/htm/CR.49.htm

[Vic S]

What coroner wants to do the autopsy? After the Michael Hastings coroner died just before the results were to be announced and the autopsy redone?

[Cementjungle]

so he just died from...death?

The judge who declared it to be natural causes did so by phone without ever seeing him in person. Odd.