Word: chayet
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...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...
...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...
...School Faculty members indicted last month for allegedly illegal dissection of human fetuses were duly arraigned last week. Neil L. Chayet, attorney for both Dr. Leon D. Sabath, associate professor of Medicine, and Dr. Leonard D. Berman, assistant professor of Pathology, said last week that he must have his case prepared by early summer...
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...
...wish it had more impact," he added. Chayet explained that the decision by the hospital only clears the doctors of an offense against medical ethics, but does not judge the criminality of their actions...