after governor christie appointed a new state medical examiner, andrew falzon, in 2016, 200 politically prominent new jerseyans, including three former governors and two former attorneys general, wrote the new medical examiner an open letter asking that john sheridan's death certificate be amended as his family wanted. later in 2016 christie refused to renew soriano's appointment, reportedly claiming he had "lost confidence" in the prosecutor. in 2017 falzon officially changed john sheridan's death certificate to say that the manner of death was undetermined.