By Jeff German, January 30, 2018

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.

McLetchie said Tuesday that Clark County District Judge Timothy Williams ordered Paddock’s autopsy report to be released immediately. Both news organizations agreed to receive the victims’ autopsy reports with their names removed. Fudenberg said in a statement issued late Tuesday that he would release the victims’ reports “as soon as possible.”

“The court correctly recognized the presumption of public access to records, even when a mass tragedy occurs,” McLetchie said. “(The judge) also rejected arguments by the coroner’s office that there were any privacy interests with regards to the autopsy of Stephen Paddock, let alone any that outweighed the strong presumption of access to records in Nevada.”

Fudenberg previously has ruled the 64-year-old Paddock’s death a suicide. He shot himself in the head in his 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay hotel suite.
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https://www.reviewjournal.com/investigat...utopsy-reports/

Something, a lot of things! about this case seem fishy to me! TM