Gene Hackman's estate asks the court to open the publication of death investigations

Santa Fe, NM (AP)-a representative of the actor Gene Hackman's estate wants to discover the public publication of autopsy and investigative reports in particular of photographs and police camera-in-in-in-cemitations in connection with the recent death of Hackman and Ms. Betsy Arakawa in her New Mexico Home last month.

Last week, the authorities announced that Hackman, at the age of 95, won heart diseases with complications from Alzheimer's disease up to a week after a rare disease-Hantavirus syndrome-like life of his 65-year-old woman.

Hackman's pacemaker last showed signs of activities on February 18, which indicates a abnormal heart rhythm on the day he probably died. The couple's bodies were only discovered on February 26 when maintenance and security staff in Santa Fe appeared in the house and the police alerted – and an puzzle for law enforcement agencies and medical investigators revealed themselves to struggle.

Julia Peters, a representative of the Hackman and Arakawa estate, asked a State District Court in Santa Fe to seal records in the cases in order to protect the family's right to privacy after the 14th change in the US constitution, which emphasized the possibly shocking nature of photos and videos in the investment and the potential for their spread by media.

In the request that files on Tuesday, the discrete lifestyle of the couple in Santa Fe since Hackman's retirement also described. The state capital is known as a refuge for celebrities, artists and authors.

The couple “lived an exemplary private life in Santa Fe, New Mexico for over thirty years and did not show their lifestyle,” said the petition.

New Mexicos Open Records Law blocks public access to sensitive images, including the deceased of people, said Amanda Lavin, legal director of the non -profit New Mexico Foundation for Open Government. Some medical information is also not regarded as public records in the context of the law on state public records.

At the same time, the majority of the death investigations by law enforcement agencies and autop appeals by medical investigators are generally taken into account under state law in order to ensure the government's transparency and accountability, she said.

“I think it violates transparency when the court banned the release of all examination documents, including the autopsies,” said Lavin on Thursday. “The whole idea that these records are available is to ensure the accountability obligation in the way these examinations are carried out.”

“There is also a concern of public health because Hantavirus was involved,” said Lavin.

She said that the preventive application for preventing government documents for constitutional reasons was unusual.

Hackman, a Hollywood icon, won two Oscars in a famous career in films such as “The French Connection”, “Hoosiers” and “Superman” from the 1960s to his retirement in the early 2000.

Arakawa, born in Hawaii, studied as a concert pianist, visited the University of Southern California and met Hackman in the mid -1980s when he worked in a California gym.