Marfa, TX – Texas officials say a county judge’s decision via telephone that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes and no autopsy was needed was unusual but not unprecedented.
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Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara followed the requirements of the law, according to a fellow justice of the peace in the county where Scalia died and an official who trains justices of the peace.
Guevara issued a statement Tuesday saying that she followed the wishes of the Scalia family. She says an attorney for Scalia told her the family did not want an autopsy because they believed he died of natural causes and preferred not to delay his body’s return to Virginia, where he lived. Guevara said she consulted with Scalia’s physician and the sheriff before deciding against an autopsy.