Posted on 02/14/2016 11:39:02 AM PST by 5150 FREEPER
Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died of a heart attack, Presidio County Judge Cinderella Guevara told a Dallas-Fort Worth television station on Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
***Guevara pronounced Scalia dead at 1:52 p.m. on Saturday and ordered an autopsy after reviewing the case with a U.S. Marshall and talking to Scalia’s doctor***
May not have been completed, just ordered. But if they are definitively claiming cause of death an autopsy and tox screen have to be done first.
***Guevara pronounced Scalia dead at 1:52 p.m. on Saturday and ordered an autopsy after reviewing the case with a U.S. Marshall and talking to Scalia’s doctor***
May not have been completed, just ordered. But if they are definitively claiming cause of death an autopsy and tox screen have to be done first.
Yes, I looked at a different article which said last rites were ordered after he was found dead.
One article said that the US Marshal Service and the county sheriff were involved in the “investigation”. Most unattended deaths have mandatory autopsies, and usually the county sheriff would order that. So why the heck were they calling justices of the peace and judges, relying on a law that allows a judge to make a pronunciation of death?
Or am I heading down Tin Foil Alley?
Plus how does a judge pronounce time of death? Unless Texas has some weird ass law that anyone can pronounce time of death, a doc or a nurse, depending on the state, can only pronounce time of death.
The deductions of an autopsy??
***Guevara pronounced Scalia dead at 1:52 p.m. on Saturday***
???
Sudden cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack. Lots of people have “heart attacks” and don’t even know it. And the number one symptom of a heart attack in men is denying you’re having one.
Here is the TX statute governing the requirements following the finding of a dead body: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CR/htm/CR.49.htm
***Sudden cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack.***
You are right. And the only way to determine that definitively us an autopsy.
We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled,” said Poindexter.
A pillow over his head? Weird.
An interesting bit from your linked article- the family did not request an autopsy either.
I don’t think anything was done to him, but I’d feel better if he had an autopsy. Just in case...
A-ha; found this, there was a famous running book written a few years ago, “Born to run” and one of the main characters is Micah True. Well, they found Micah True, ultramarathoner, in New Mexico, Silver City area in general, they found him dead in the desert but I looked it up. They did an autopsy on him. So, this is real bogus, if someone such as Scalia does not even get an autopsy. And the questions will remain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_True
“...examiners in Albuquerque are still conducting the autopsy.”
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/extreme-sports/rip-caballo-blanco.htm
So, good enough to perform on a running personality but not a top Supreme Court justice?
So he just happens to die in a room by himself out in the middle of nowhere, in a country where there are plenty of screeching liberals and Big Government crooks who would like to see him dead.
Add my dad to the mix, he died of a heart attack too.........
The conspiracy stupidity runs deep around here.............
Judge Cinderella Guevara
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What?
That area of the state is about as remote as it gets-I’ve been there many times on camping trips. I live in a remote rural area, but that part of West Texas makes this part of BFE look like a metropolis-any sheriff or other 1st responder-other than local VFD-is about 30 minutes away out here-probably at least twice that long in the Big Bend area of W Texas.
The examiner who did finally take a look did not find any signs of foul play-if he had, he would have told the family so, and an autopsy would have gone forward.
Exactly what signs of foul play would you expect a professional assassin to leave?
There is almost always something to arouse suspicion that a coroner is going to pick up on-poison may leave an odor or a color to the skin, and contrary to all those crime shows-smothering leaves obvious signs as well. Blood and hair samples were probably taken, and the family likely told the coroner’s office that he had issues that only family members knew about-the man was entitled to his privacy-as we all are-I’m pretty sure there is no rule that says a supreme court justice is not entitled to keep their personal info private.
I do not think Scalia was murdered-he lived big and enjoyed life-that doesn’t usually translate to a terribly ling one...
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