The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner released Mr. Hernandez's body on Wednesday, but withheld some tissue including his brain until the cause and manner of death was determined.
John M. Thompson, the attorney handling Hernandez's appeal in the 2013 murder case, also said Hernandez's death should be "carefully and thoroughly investigated".
Investigators said three handwritten notes were found next to an open Bible in Hernandez's cell at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley.
State Police found cardboard jammed into the door tracks of Hernandez's cell. The former Patriots tight end was pronounced dead at UMass Memorial-Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster about an hour later.
After a brief public dispute between MA authorities and Hernandez's family, the former Patriots tight end's brain was released to BU's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center. The center studies the effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive brain trauma, that has been identified in some football players.
TMZ Sports additionally reported that Baez is threatening legal action if the medical examiner doesn't release the brain to Boston University as Hernandez's family requested.
Baez also hopes the study may help solve the mysteries surrounding Hernandez's death. Baez said arrangements were made with the university to pick up Hernandez's brain Thursday morning, but Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner Henry Nields blocked the pickup, claiming his office would perform the "fixing procedure" on the brain.
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Munoz and his top lieutenants indicated that it was too early to tell if bookings had been affected by the incident. Munoz declined to say whether the airline would end overbooking sales until the comprehensive review is completed.
He said he isn't aware of any staff at the maximum-security prison where Hernandez was serving a life sentence for murder being reprimanded as a result of the death.
He declined to say whether he or the family believed brain damage from Hernandez's playing days led the 27-year-old former New England Patriots player to kill himself.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said on Thursday that he has confidence in the investigation being conducted by the state's department of correction.
Prison officials say Hernandez did not leave a suicide note, and was not on suicide watch because he did not appear to be at risk.
His death came less than a week after he was acquitted of the murder of two men outside a Boston nightclub in 2012.
Hernandez's body is at Faggas Funeral Home in Watertown, Massachusetts, according to funeral home secretary Jennifer Smith.
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