Word: edelin
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...Kenneth C. Edelin yesterday appealed before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court his year-old conviction of manslaughter for a death following a legal abortion he performed...
...minute appeal, defense lawyers argued that his patient's constitutional right to an abortion gave Edelin the right to perform, in his best medical judgment, an operation which terminated a possible fetal life...
...lawyers maintained that there was insufficient medical evidence to prove that after the abortion Edelin terminated a "viable" human being...
...also recently finished working with defense attorney William P. Homans Jr. '41 on the appeal for Dr. Kenneth Edelin's man-slaughter conviction for an abortion the doctor performed last year. The appeal will be argued this month. Nesson is now representing Morton Halperin, a former member of the National Security Staff, in a lawsuit against Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 on wiretapping charges, and is also representing filmmaker Emile de Antonio, who is making a movie about the Weather Underground, in lawsuits against the FBI and CIA on charges of invasion of privacy...
...Nesson, probably because of his modest manner, remains unknown to many undergraduates and even law students here. The defender of Ellsberg and Edelin, the prosecutor of the Ku Klux Klan, the battler against wiretapping plays it quiet and close to his chest. "I prefer," he says, "to remain out of the public...