Judge Orders Bobbi Kristina Brown's Autopsy Results Be Unsealed

Prosecutors opposed the report’s release, arguing it would compromise an ongoing criminal investigation into the 22-year-old's death.
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Autopsy results for Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, could be released on Thursday after a judge in Georgia ordered the report to be unsealed.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22, died in July after months in a coma. She had been found unconscious and unresponsive in a bathtub in her north Atlanta home in January 2015.

Prosecutors opposed the report’s release, arguing it would compromise an ongoing criminal investigation into the celebrity daughter's death.

"It is our feeling that those valid reasons still exist," Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. said in a statement, adding his office nonetheless would follow the court order.

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Last August, the conservator of Bobbi Kristina Brown's estate filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing her boyfriend, Nick Gordon, of causing the death. A spokesman for Gordon called the lawsuit "slanderous and meritless."

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk told Reuters he unsealed the autopsy report on Thursday at the request of Atlanta television station WXIA and it could be made public later in the day.

Brown was an aspiring singer and the only child of the late Houston. Brown's death came three years after her Grammy award-winning mother drowned in a bathtub in a Beverly Hills hotel. Cocaine abuse and heart disease contributed to Houston's death in 2012 at age 48, authorities said.

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