Justice Scalia's Supreme Court chair is draped in mourning black as it's announced his body will lie in repose on Friday followed by a funeral the next day
- The tradition of covering a recently passed Supreme Court justice's chair in black dates back to the 19th century
- Sources told NBC News on Tuesday that Justice Antonin Scalia's body will lie in repose on Friday, followed by a funeral on Saturday
- The 79-year-old justice was found dead of a heart attack on Saturday in his hotel room at a Texas Ranch where he was on a hunting trip
- Scalia was appointed to the nation's highest court in 1986 by then-President Ronald Reagan and had been the longest-serving justice
Conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Antonin Scalia
WASHINGTON POST
Two days after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died suddenly in remote West Texas, a former D.C. homicide commander is raising questions about how the death was handled by local and federal authorities.
“As a former homicide commander, I am stunned that no autopsy was ordered for Justice Scalia,” William O. Ritchie, former head of criminal investigations for D.C. police, wrote in a post on Facebook on Sunday.
Former D.C. homicide commander weighs in as conspiracy theories swirl around the death of Scalia
- William Ritchie has raised questions of how Scalia's death was treated
- Questioned the actions of a U.S. Marshal and a Texas judge
- Judge Cinderela Guevara did not ask for an autopsy when she was called
- She said Scalia died of natural causes, despite not seeing the body
- Ritchie said: 'What medical proof exists of a myocardial Infarction? Why not a cerebral hemorrhage?'
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