Naomi Judd's daughters, Wynonna and Ashley Judd, are doing everything they can to prevent the publication of any information relating to her mother's death.
The 76-year-old country music icon died of a gunshot wound she inflicted on herself. Her younger daughter was at home at the time.
Naomi's daughters and husband, Larry Strickland, filed a lawsuit against the Sheriff of Williamson County, Tennessee, after her death on April 30, including media who sought documents concerning her death.
Wynonna, Ashley, and the rest of their family, on the other hand, do not want images, movies, or even audio recordings made public.
They said that these data are "private, highly sensitive," and that releasing them will reopen the fresh wounds of their matriarch's death, and that they should never be revealed.
Handwritten notes from cops, body camera video, Post-It notes with images left at the sad scene of the crime, and even text exchanges between Ashley and family psychotherapist Ted are among the items in these files.
They are now challenging the judge presiding over the case, Joseph Woodruff, because they claim he is showing "bias and injustice" toward judicial procedures.
According to court records acquired by Radar Online, Wynonna and Ashley Judd feel the judge acted in such a way that a person may assume the court improperly prejudged the case before it was considered on the merits.
They further contended that the court had already voiced opinions and reached wrong conclusions, giving the impression that the court's position on the merits would not alter.
"In light of this Court's prior rulings making merit determinations inappropriately, threat of contempt, disregard for cited case law, and disregard for the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure, the Court's impartiality might reasonably be questioned by the average person."
Because of this, two Judd family wants the judge to step down and have a new judge assigned to the case.
This is so "the court's impartiality not be reasonably questioned, and the important privacy interests of this family be considered without prejudging the merits of the case, threats of record disclosure, and contempt sanctions."
According to the Associated Press, an autopsy report was completed in August following Naomi Judd's death and revealed that her cause of death was suicide.
Naomi suffered from PTSD and bipolar disease, and she took her own life after a lengthy fight with mental illness.
Ashley also claimed that her mother was killed with her own gun.
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