NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s excessive courtroom on Thursday vacated a ruling that required police to publicly launch their investigation of nation singer Naomi Judd’s demise.
The state Supreme Courtroom didn’t rule on whether or not the data will be launched, however despatched the case again to the decrease courtroom for one more listening to. Judd’s household filed a petition in Williamson County Chancery Courtroom in August, saying the police data comprise video and audio interviews with family within the quick aftermath of Judd’s demise.
Releasing such particulars would inflict “important trauma and irreparable hurt” on the household, the petition stated. It argued that the police investigative information are lined by an exemption to the state’s public data regulation.
Williamson County Chancellor Joseph A. Woodruff dominated towards the Judd household on Aug. 31, denying their request for an injunction to maintain the data non-public whereas they pursue their authorized case. The data “don’t seem to fall inside any acknowledged exception to the Public Information Act,” Woodruff discovered.
As well as, the chancellor dominated that particular data within the police file are public data, together with physique digicam footage taken within Judd’s house. However the Tennessee Supreme Courtroom took difficulty with that a part of the chancellor’s order. The excessive courtroom stated on Thursday that Woodruff shouldn’t have dominated on which particular data are public and that are non-public with no full listening to on the problem.
The courtroom 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 house in Tennessee on the age of 76. Her daughter Ashley has beforehand stated that her mom killed herself, and the household stated she was misplaced to “the illness of psychological sickness.”
