Judge Moves To Unseal Bobbi Kristina Brown's Autopsy

ROSWELL, GA -- A Fulton County Superior Court judge has agreed to unseal the autopsy report of the late Bobbi Kristina Brown.

The petition was filed by 11 Alive to unseal the report, which was closed from public inspection Sept. 25, 2015, by a court order.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard's office said Judge Henry M. Newkirk vacated the order Thursday, March 3 after listening to arguments made by the parties involved.

Howard added that when his office requested the autopsy be withheld from public view, "we felt that we had valid public safety and investigative reasons for that request."

"It is our feeling that those valid reasons still exist; however, as citizens and officers of the court we must, nevertheless, follow the orders and instructions of the court," Howard continued. "We would hope that news agencies and the media receiving the report would do so with the discretion and dignity a family who has lost a loved one deserves."

Brown, the 22-year-old daughter of R&B singers Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, died July 26, 2015, at Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth.

Her death came several months after she was discovered unresponsive inside a bathtub the morning of Jan. 31, 2015, at her Roswell home.

Police and fire crews took over life-saving measures once they arrived on the scene, and Brown was transported to North Fulton Hospital for treatment.

She was later moved from North Fulton to Emory Hospital, and subsequently relocated to a rehabilitation center in March and to the Duluth-based hospice facility in June.

Both the district attorney and Roswell police continue to investigate Brown's death.

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