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Regarding the case of Dr. Kenneth Edelin [Mar. 3]: on Friday the judge charges the jury that for a guilty verdict they must be certain "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Dr. Edelin is guilty of manslaughter. On Saturday the jury is certain, the verdict "guilty." Soon a juror is telling...
Though a seven-man majority of the learned Justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S. shrank with becoming modesty from this speculation, the jury of laymen that convicted Dr. Kenneth Edelin in a Boston criminal court (TIME, Feb. 24) showed no such restraint. Its verdict-guilty of manslaughter-was...
The guilty verdict in the abortion-related manslaughter case [Feb. 24] is not surprising. The issue was not one of abortion but of destruction of human life following an abortion. The verdict was reached by peers who had no choice but to base their decision on the compelling evidence presented...
No one questioned the legality of the abortion, which Edelin (TIME, May 27) performed in October 1973. The operation took place after the U.S. Supreme Court had struck down most state abortion laws and well before the Massachusetts legislature enacted a new set of regulations that outlaw abortions after the...
Enormous Implications. Because of such conflicts, many observers expected the trial to end in Edelin's acquittal. The verdict, which stunned the courtroom and which Edelin will appeal, thus breaks new ground in the continuing debate concerning abortion. By finding him guilty of manslaughter, the jury decided, in effect...