Word: edelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edelin sat quietly through the proceedings which lasted an hour and a half. More than 80 spectators and a dozen newsmen attended the hearing
McGuire could grant Edelin either acquittal or a new trial. If he denies both, the case would proceed on appeal to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts...
After a six-week trial. Edelin was convicted by a nine-man, three-woman jury of manslaughter for the death of a fetus following a legal abortion he performed in October...
Defense attorney Charles R. Nixon '60, professor of Law, argued in court yesterday that the case had been prejudiced by a variance between the charges originally made by the prosecution and the crime of which Edelin was finally convicted...
...proof that the fetus had been killed outside the mother was consistent with his original charge that it had been killed "partially removed" from her and was not a still birth as the defense had argued. The jury's judgement was that the fetus was born alive and therefore Edelin was guilt's of man slaughter Flanagan said...