Santa Fe, NM – A representative of the actor’s heritage Genes Hackman He is trying to block the public launch of the autopsy and the investigation reports, especially the photographs and video of the Police Police Chamber, related to the recent deaths of Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa after their partially mummified bodies were discovered in their home in New Mexico in February.
Authorities last week Hackman announced died at 95 years of heart disease with Alzheimer’s disease complications Up to a week after a rare disease transmitted by rodents, the pulmonary syndrome of Hantavirus, took away the life of his 65 -year -old wife.
Hackman’s pacemaker showed signs of activity on February 18, indicating an abnormal heart rate on the day he probably died. The couple’s bodies were not discovered until February 26, when maintenance and security workers were presented at the house of Santa Fe and alerted the police, leaving a mystery for medical investigators and investigators of the law to unravel.
Julia Peters, a representative of the heritage of Hackman and Arakawa, urged a State District Court in Santa Fe to seal records in cases to protect the family’s right to privacy in pain under the amendment 14 to the Constitution of the United States, emphasizing the possibly shocking nature of the photographs and the video in the investigation and the potential due to their dissemination by the media.
The application, submitted on Tuesday, also described the discrete lifestyle of the couple in Santa Fe since Hackman’s retirement. The capital city of the State is known as refuge for celebrities, artists and authors.
The couple “lived an exemplary private life for more than thirty years in Santa Fe, New Mexico and did not show their lifestyle,” the petition said.
The Law of Open Registries of New Mexico blocks public access to confidential images, including representations of deceased people, said Amanda Lavin, legal director of the Non -Profit Foundation of New Mexico for the Open Government. Some medical information is not considered a public registration by virtue of the Law on the State of Public Registries.
At the same time, most of the investigations of death by the police and the autopsy reports by medical investigators are generally considered public records under state law in the spirit of guaranteeing the transparency and responsibility of the government, he said.
“I think it violates transparency if the court prohibits the release of all investigation records, including autopsies,” Lavin said Thursday. “The complete idea that the records are available is to guarantee the responsibility of the way in which these investigations are carried out.”
“There is also a public health concern since Hantavirus was involved,” Lavin said.
She said that the preventive request to avoid the release of government records for constitutional reasons is unusual.
Hackman, a Hollywood icon, won two Oscar during a historical race in films, including “The French Connection”, “Hoosiers” and “Superman” from the 1960s until his retirement in the early 2000s.
Arakawa, born in Hawaii, studied as a concert pianist, attended the University of Southern California and met with Hackman in the mid -1980s while working in a California gym.
