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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.
The Fulton County medical examiner's office said it was awaiting
the judge's order and would not provide the autopsy details
before Friday.
Prosecutors opposed the report’s release, arguing it would
compromise an ongoing criminal investigation of 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 that his office nonetheless would follow the court's
instructions.
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.
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.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins, Chris Reese and Dan Grebler)
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