Santa V, NM (AP) – On Monday, a court prevented any public records showing the bodies of Jin Hakman and his wife Petsey Arakawa, but said that the photos and other documents can be revealed.
The representative of the Hakman family, New Mexico Judge, urged to stamp photos, videos and documents to protect the family’s privacy. Matthew Wilson, the judge residing in Santa in a court temporarily, has placed on the issuance of suspended records on Mondays.
Wilson said that anything that does not include pictures of couples bodies can be released.
Hackman and Arakawa residues were partially found at the Santa House on February 26, when maintenance and security workers appeared at the house and alerted the police. The authorities confirmed that Hakman, 95, died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer’s disease about a week after his wife’s death. Hackman may have been unaware of Arakawa, 65, who died.
The cause of her death was listed as the Huntafos Pulmonary Virus syndrome, a rare rodent transformer.
The open records law in New Mexico prohibits the arrival of sensitive photos, including photographing the bodies. Experts also say that some medical information is not considered public records under the state’s examination law for public records.
Real estate actress Julia Peters emphasized the shocking nature of photos and video in the investigation and the possibility of being published by the media in an attempt to prevent her from release her. Hackman Family Estate has also sought to prevent the issuance of corpse dissection reports by the medical investigator’s office and death investigation reports by the Santa County Office in Sharif.
Court Somer, a lawyer in the Hawza, argued during the Monday session that the couple made great pain to stay outside the public light during their lives and that the right to control the use of their names and effects should extend to their property in death.
Most investigations into death by law enforcement and body enforcement reports are usually considered by medical investigators public records under the state law in a spirit of guaranteeing transparency and government accountability.
At the beginning of the Monday session, Wilson gave a request from the media, including the Associated Press, to intervene.
The authorities revealed the mysterious circumstances of the death of the couple, describing their conclusions at a press conference on March 7 without launching the most written records and photography.
One of the three dogs of the couple, a mixture of Kilby named Zina, was found dead in a cage in the bathroom cabinet near Arakawa. Two other dogs are found alive.
Susan Madur, a propaganda that has worked with Hakimans for years, has witnessed that the couple enjoyed living in Santa in because he gave them not to disclose his identity. Hackman retired in the early 2000s.
Arakawa had no children, while Hackman survived three children from a former marriage. Privacy may also play a role with the leveling of the couple’s drug. According to the PROBATE court documents, Hackman signed an updated will in 2005, leaving his real estate for his wife while the will had signed that year her property went to him. With the death of both, real estate management is in the hands of Peters.
There is a suspended request to set asset management guardian in the two boxes associated with the estate. Without the documents of trust being announced, it is not clear who are the beneficiaries and how the assets will be divided.
Lawyers who specialize in real estate planning in New Mexico says it can show more details if there are any legal disputes over assets. Until then, they said, the parties may ask the court to close the documents.
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The Associated Press Susan Monteoya Brian contributed to the Bokirk in this report.