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Community uproar over a possible police beating forced City Manager Corcoran to hire Boston University Law Professor Paul J. Liacos as an outside consultant to conduct a full investigation into the case. At the same time, Middlesex County District Attorney John J. Droney began an inquest that would sent its findings to a grand jury...
...inquest report recommended that Officers DeLuca and Carbone be charged with assault and manslaughter, but a Middlesex grand jury of February 16, 1973 declined to return indictments because of insufficient evidence...
DeLuca, through his attorney Daniel J. O'Connell, filed for a court injunction on December 1, 1972, to bar a hearing before City Manager Corcoran, charging that Corcoran could not act as a neutral party. He cited a letter Concoran sent him before either the Liacos or inquest reports were completed that said, "I am contemplating discharging you from the police department for several charges...
...inquest nearly six months later, the cookout crowd's memories were contradictory. But on two particulars, their memories were sharp and uniform: Kennedy drank only one or two rum-and-Cokes, and he left with Mary Jo between 11 and 11:45. In late July and again in early August 1969, Esther Newberg told TIME that she had not been aware at the time that the couple had even left the party. At the inquest, however, she said that Kennedy and Mary Jo had left at 11:30. How did she know? "I have a rather large watch that...
Whatever his motive, Dinis did not encourage the grand jury to get involved after the inquest. At the insistence of Foreman Leslie H. Leland, a pharmacist, the grand jury was reconvened in April 1970. But it was muzzled by Dinis' reluctance to press the investigation and by a court order prohibiting the jurors from summoning witnesses who had already testified at the inquest and from examining the inquest transcript. The grand jury quit in frustration, and Dinis declared: "The case is closed...