Word: inquest
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...James Webster reported a different version: as his men began moving into the area around the bank to disperse the students, one cop's rifle went off accidentally, the bullet ricocheted off the ground and may have killed Moran. To dispel any whitewash charges, Webster promised a televised inquest into the death...
Sidney Lipman, the freelance stenographer who worked at the Mary Jo Kopechne inquest in Edgartown, has changed all that. A plump, tenacious Bostonian of 45, Lipman insists that he has the right to sell copies of the inquest transcript for publication. Not only has the controversy forced the Suffolk Superior Court to impound the document until the issue is resolved; it has suddenly made court stenographers highly visible and subject to sharp questions about their rights and roles...
Rival Release. Lipman was hired for the inquest by District Attorney Edmund Dinis, who suggested that the stenographer could undoubtedly supplement his court fee by selling transcripts to the press. Lipman assembled a six-man team including two reporters, two secretaries, a duplicator operator and a messenger boy. He contracted with news organizations to sell 79 transcripts at $1.05 per page or $802.20 per set. Then Lipman discovered that a Suffolk Superior Court clerk, Edward V. Keating, planned to release the transcript at the bargain price of $75 per copy...
...inquest report released yesterday Boyle stated that Kennedy "did not intend to drive to the ferry" and that "his turn onto Dyke Road was intentional...
...inquest I truthfully answered all questions asked of me," Kennedy said yesterday, upon learning of the judge's charge. "In my personal view, the influence and ultimate finding of the judge's report are not justified and I reject them...