State Court rules photos of Kurt Cobain’s death to remain hidden

SPOKANE, Wash. — Photographs from the scene of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain’s death in his Seattle home will not be released publicly.

KING 5 reports the State Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday the photographs are exempt from the Public Records Act and releasing them would “violate the Cobain family’s due process rights under the 14th Amendment.”

Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, and his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, who was a toddler at the time of his death, filed testimonies to keep the photos from being made public.

The ruling comes after courts dismissed the case by Seattle journalist Richard Lee, who has been pursuing the photos to prove Cobain was murdered and did not commit suicide in 1994.