The late nation legend's household filed a court docket petition in August to seal police reviews and recordings made through the investigation into her loss of life.
Tennessee’s excessive court docket on Thursday vacated a ruling that required police to publicly launch their investigation of nation singer Naomi Judd’s loss of life.
The state Supreme Courtroom didn't rule on whether or not the information could be launched, however despatched the case again to the decrease court docket for one more listening to. Judd’s household filed a petition in Williamson County Chancery Courtroom in August, saying the police information comprise video and audio interviews with kinfolk within the speedy aftermath of Judd’s loss of life.
Releasing such particulars would inflict “vital trauma and irreparable hurt” on the household, the petition mentioned. It argued that the police investigative recordsdata are lined by an exemption to the state’s public information regulation.
Williamson County Chancellor Joseph A. Woodruff dominated in opposition to the Judd household on Aug. 31, denying their request for an injunction to maintain the information personal whereas they pursue their authorized case. The information “don't seem to fall inside any acknowledged exception to the Public Information Act,” Woodruff discovered.
As well as, the chancellor dominated that particular information within the police file are public information, together with physique digicam footage taken inside Judd’s dwelling. However the Tennessee Supreme Courtroom took subject with that a part of the chancellor’s order. The excessive court docket mentioned on Thursday that Woodruff mustn't have dominated on which particular information are public and that are personal and not using a full listening to on the problem.
The court docket vacated Woodruff’s earlier ruling and despatched the case again to the Chancery Courtroom for a brand new listening to.
Judd died on April 30 at her dwelling in Tennessee on the age of 76. Her daughter Ashley Judd has beforehand mentioned that her mom died by suicide, and the household mentioned she was misplaced to “the illness of psychological sickness.”