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What are my marching orders?" asked District Court Judge James Boyle on the telephone from Edgartown. "Halt," replied the clerk of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Boston...
...theory that the girl probably lived, breathing in an air pocket, for some time after the accident? Under Boyle's strictures, Kennedy's attorneys would not have been permitted to produce expert testimony to challenge Farrar's thesis or his qualifications. Meantime, every news story from Edgartown would recirculate the Farrar version, enveloped this time in the dignifying aura of a legal proceeding...
...that it will be held in secret to protect the rights of Kennedy and the other witnesses. In either case, the public, which is presumably a court to which every politician must appeal, would be denied an open and formal explanation. Kennedy might have gone ahead with the Edgartown inquest, risking rumors on the record in order to account for his conduct clearly once and for all. Now he has for a time formalized his silence and only postponed his day of reckoning with the public-a day that must surely come if he intends to remain in public life...
Some people think that Kennedy's rights are being violated. They point out that when the Senator came to the Edgartown police station to report the accident, he was not warned of his rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer. However, many law experts, including Harvard Law Professor Livingston Hall, believe that the Supreme Court's Miranda decision would not require the warnings in Kennedy's case. Hall points to a passage in the decision that reads: "There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that...
...hitting a home run without touching first base." If an autopsy had been ordered soon after the accident, it might have determined such facts as what time Miss Kopechne died and whether she had suffered a concussion that prevented her from trying to get out of the car. The Edgartown medical examiner, Dr. Donald Mills, who ruled out the autopsy initially, says that Dinis agreed on the telephone, as late as the day Mary Jo was buried, "that in view of the clear-cut evidence of drowning, no real need for an autopsy existed...