Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Double Jeopardy? Conceivably, the inquest could disclose evidence of criminal negligence in Mary Jo's death. After Judge Boyle files his report, Dinis might go to a grand jury. If Kennedy is ever indicted, it will be difficult to find a juror who has not been "prejudiced" by something...
Some people think that Kennedy's rights are being violated. They point out that when the Senator came to the Edgartown police station to report the accident, he was not warned of his rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer. However, many law experts, including Harvard Law...
Touching First Base. At a court hearing in Wilkes-Barre last week, Dinis did not specify what he expected to learn from an autopsy on Mary Jo's body. His associate, Assistant D.A. Armand Fernandes Jr., argued that to hold an inquest without an autopsy would be "like hitting...
Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham, who were with the Senator after the accident but have been silent so far, will probably be called to testify. The fact that both are lawyers complicates the matter. Unless they plead the Fifth Amendment, they will be required to report all they saw that...
Whatever negligence may have been involved, an inquest does not seem to be the most efficient way to gather the evidence of it. The public has a legitimate interest in knowing whether or not Kennedy misrepresented the facts of the accident, but a U.S. Senator, like any other citizen, has...