Court Orders Release of Vegas Shooter's Autopsy (legal, county, government)

[DRob4JC]

Judge orders release of Las Vegas shooting autopsy reports

A District Court judge on Tuesday ordered the Clark County coroner’s office to release the autopsy reports of Stephen Paddock and the 58 people he killed in the Oct. 1 Las Vegas massacre.

But as of late Tuesday, Clark County Coroner John Fudenberg had not complied with the order. He indicated he wouldn’t release Paddock’s autopsy report until it was “finalized.”

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Review-Journal Editor-in-Chief Keith Moyer added: “The shooter’s body was cremated Dec. 21. How can the autopsy report not be ‘finalized’ when the body was cremated more than five weeks ago? The law is squarely on the side of the public’s right to open government.”

The coroner’s office has fought to keep autopsy reports confidential. Three weeks ago, a judge ordered the coroner to pay about $32,000 in legal costs to the Review-Journal for refusing to release public records to the newspaper.

Hiding something? They (the county) paid $32K in legal costs to hold this back.

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Originally Posted by DRob4JC

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Hiding something? They (the county) paid $32K in legal costs to hold this back.

Smoke screen. This won't tell us anything, but they
make a fuss about it, to try to make it hard for us to
complain that they are still hiding a lot of other stuff.