The suspicions of ordinary people are not indications for doing autopsies.
What's needed is either the permission of the family or, barring that, a legitimate forensic reason for doing it. Those reasons are spelled out in Texas law and public suspicion is not one of them.
Actually, they can be.
And Justice Scalia himself wasn’t an ordinary person. He and his family accepted that.
I also took a look at post #62 and even by that see reasons for an autopsy to be done. One being that the reason for his death wasn’t obvious. That’s especially true because the question “why would anyone want to kill HIM?” isn’t just rhetorical.
Not so. When a body is found dead, it is up to the authorities whether or not to do an autopsy. An INQUEST is mandatory.
They could have done an autopsy, no questions asked. They chose not to, even though the guy had a pillow over his head when he was found. In addition, they rushed to embalm his body even when public questions were swirling.
An interesting point in one of the articles was that his son was supposed to be there for this outing but was called away for “unexpected reasons”. I’d love to know those reasons, and whether they had anything to do with the family going along with what they knew would raise questions the suspicions of the general public.