SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The New Mexico Court of Appeals has overturned a District Court judge’s order requiring the state Office of the Medical Investigator to rule that the cause of a prominent Albuquerque attorney’s 2010 death was unknown.
The Court of Appeals’ ruling Monday said the judge abused his discretion by ordering the Office of the Medical Investigator to change its finding that lawyer Mary Han’s death was a suicide as police believed.
Han was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in a vehicle in her garage, and her estate contended that police violated state constitutional protections for Han as a crime victim when her death was investigated.
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