Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Antonin Scalia

WashingtonPost ^ | Feb 15,2016 | Lena H. Sun and Sari Horwitz

[FR_addict]

Two days after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly in remote West Texas, a former D.C. homicide commander is raising questions about how the death was handled by local and federal authorities.

"As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia," William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police, wrote in a post on Facebook onSunday...

[FR_addict]

There were a lot more Obama supporters there than GOPers starting with the owner.

[Talisker]

Good find, thanks.

[RIghtwardHo]

Also known as swirling stupidity.

[DaveA37]

“at least a 25% chance that something worse than incompetence has gone on here.”.........

Your percentage guess is way too low. More like 75+%. Too many unanswered questions even a child might ask. I smell a rat, perhaps even more than one.

[EEGator]

She didn’t “ban” anything. She spoke to the US Marshalls, and Scalia’s personal physician.

[P-Marlowe]

FWIW, this administration has gotten away with murder, treason, bribery, you name it. Bumping off a Supreme Court Justice would not even raise an eyebrow with this group.

If Scalia was murdered, the coverup trail has already been paved over.

Everyone in Obama’s administration is corrupt. And no autopsy on the person who stood firmly in the way of Obama’s “fundamental transformation of the United States of America”?

Am I paranoid?

Cui Bono?

[tophat9000]

“As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police

so is this guy a tin foil hat guy?....No, ......This is basic stuff, simple process requires it.... simple prudence

What the hell’s going on?

I’m really getting tired of people trying to put a “hat foil hat” on people asking for basic process

we are not asking for extraordinary things in the death of ordinary man

we are asking for the ordinary things in the death of an extraordinary man

[Bubba_Leroy]

I am pretty sure it is state law here that anyone who dies outside a hospital or not under the care of a physician has to get an autopsy?

Nope. Unless the circumstances are suspicious (such as in a fire) there generally is never an autopsy. In rural counties without a medical examiner, when a death occurs outside of a hospital, the local Justice of the Peace is called to pronounce the death and cause of death. Most JPs have no medical training.

In the case of the death of a Supreme Court Justice, I think an autopsy would have been warranted regardless of the circumstances, but the fact that no autopsy was performed in not surprising or unusual.

[Talisker]

She didn’t “ban” anything. She spoke to the US Marshalls, and Scalia’s personal physician.

Sorry, my mistake. I should have said she used her judicial powers to waive, and thereby violate, Texas Criminal Code 49.04.(6) which requires an autopsy for an unattended death, as mentioned at post #18 above. In that sense, she made a ruling that banned the application of that statute.

Better?

[Talisker]

Unless the circumstances are suspicious (such as in a fire) there generally is never an autopsy.

Please read post #18 and get back to us on that. Thanks.

[FR_addict]

This is a long read, but in this article, the same justice is implicated in hampering an investigation into a young girl’s suspicious death in 2014. Maybe she is the “goto” judge.

Another article, said that the first Justices of the Peace contacted were not told that it was Judge Scalia, just a dead body. They were busy and said they couldn’t come. The third Justice Cinderela Guevara handled it on the phone and did not go to the scene.

Like a dead dog on the tracks: Injustice in small town Texas, Part 1, the Physical World
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/3/28/1284762/-Like-a-dead-dog-on-the-tracks-Injustice-in-small-town-Texas-Part-1-the-Physical-World

[Talisker]

Inquest, not autopsy, sorry. But the inquest would determine if an autopsy was required.

[Quickgun]

I guess since this was a fire, and yes only a justice of the peace came to the scene, (if I remember correctly), that is why an autopsy was ordered.

[FR_addict]

This is the article about the other justices called and what they were told.

The Trials Of Pronouncing Antonin Scalia Dead In West Texas
http://marfapublicradio.org/blog/the-trials-of-pronouncing-antonin-scalia-dead-in-west-texas/

Sounds like no one bothered to tell two of the justices that the body was Justice Scalia. They more than likely thought it was an illegal migrant who had been dead for some time.

[Slyfox]

I just hope and pray the family does not allow Obama to go to or to speak at the funeral.

[World'sGoneInsane]

we are not asking for extraordinary things in the death of ordinary man

we are asking for the ordinary things in the death of an extraordinary man

You said it all, right there.

[WRhine]

Why would a murderer leave the pillow over his face?

[FR_addict]

Here is Poindexter, the owner of the resort:

The Man In the White Hat
http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-man-in-the-white-hat/

Poindexter & Obama
TAG Owner, Other Heroes Honored in Ceremony
http://www.rvbusiness.com/tag/john-poindexter/

Scalia’s last moments on a Texas ranch
quail hunting to being found in ‘perfect repose’
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-scalia-ranch-20160214-story.html

[EEGator]

No, it isn’t any better. 49.04(6) requires an Inquest, not an Autopsy.

[Talisker]

Yeah, I said that.