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Last Thursday and Friday, Homans spent hours patiently leading his client through a painstaking description of medical procedure and the treatment of the 17-year old woman, whom Homans protected by dubbing "Alice Roe." Edelin at first appeared nervous or perturbed, but he is a verbal man and responded with lengthy and coherent answers. Alternately furrowing his brow, gazing down at the linoleum floor, or staring sidelong out through a window, Edelin usually paused before answering questions and displayed a calm bemusement when his attorney, the court typist, or the judge stumbled on his scientific terms. He usually called...
During the recesses, members of the Edelin Defense Fund stood in the hallway congratulating each other on the convincing testimony, but Thomas M. Connelly, who is active in the right-to-life movement, flitted about anxiously, drawing deeply on a habitual Chesterfield or guessing shrewdly at possible contradictions in the defendant's testimony...
Connelly, who is unemployed and once ran for Boston City Council, has been in court since mid-October, when he was the only one in the gallery during hearings on defense motions. He makes the pregnant pronouncement that he is responsible for Edelin's presence in the dock, but he will not elaborate. A large man with red hair and a great round cheese of a face. Connelly is the banshee of this trial. He can convince you that you have come to a funeral, and even when the gallery is packed, he moves his seat away from the crowd...
Joel Friedman is also unemployed, but he sides with Edelin. He comes to the court room every day and speaks with noisy authority about the trial. During the recesses he holds hands with Lucy Kaufman, who works nights but makes it to the court house every day. She has a lachrymose face, but it is hard to tell whether it is because of her schedule or her sympathy for the defendant. There are other assortments in the court room. On late Friday afternoon, as Flanagan began his cross-examination, the kid from The Harvard Crimson sat between a large black...
...prosecutor's cross-examination of Edelin was a little haphazard, skipping back and forth from one antagonistic strain to another but dropping constant suggestions to the jury. There is no love lost between Dr. Edelin and Mr. Flanagan, and Edelin appeared a little hectored when he left the stand on Friday. On Monday Edelin grew more confident and stoutly resisted Flanagan's efforts to suggest that he wandered from acceptable medical practice in his treatment of the patient. The defendant answered questions forcefully and sometimes angrily; twice he wagged his right forefinger at the prosecutor; and he never...