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...lawyers also contend that the indictments invade the right to privacy between a physician and patient. All motions will be debated in preliminary hearings before a judge not yet named and at a time not yet decided. "These constitutional questions are our strongest hope prior to trial," Neil L. Chayet, Charles's attorney, said last week...
...Neil L. Chayet '57, attorney for Charles, says the statute forbids "unlawful conveyance of a dead body." This aspect of the case calls to question just whan a fetus becomes a baby, and the Supreme Court's distinction between over-six-months and under-six-months is apt to become a sore point of contention...
...meantime, Chayet says he may join the other defending lawyers in a motion for specification, to clear up just what the clients are supposed to have done wrong...
...doctors probably will not be convicted of the charges. Neil Chayet, one of their attorneys, insists that the D.A. must prove that the aborted fetuses were human bodies as defined by law rather than fetuses with the potential of human life; he contends that such proof is impossible under Supreme Court rulings. In Edelin's case, the D.A. must show that the fetus he removed was alive upon delivery and could have been maintained by reasonable efforts...
Many members of the Boston medical community have protested the indictments, claiming the doctors' alleged methods are standard procedure. Chayet did not rule out the possibility of a motion for acquittal...