Word: prosecutors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right-to-lifers are moving against abortion on other legal fronts. In Boston, for example, the anti-abortion movement has obtained indictments against three Boston researchers who used tissue from dead fetuses for research. The chief prosecutor in the Edelin trial, Newman Flanagan, now plans to turn his full attention to the case pending against the three. Activists in Long Island's Nassau County have prompted inquiries by both local and federal prosecutors into allegations that aborted live fetuses were allowed to die in the county medical center. Last week the center turned over to the district attorney...
...trial hadn't yet started, but Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin, seated in his small green office in the recesses of the Boston City Hospital, was trying to convince a reporter that the Suffolk County prosecutor, with the help of an emotional case, really did have a prospect for conviction with the manslaughter indictment of Edelin...
Fifty-one days later, defense attorney William P. Homans Jr. '41 was rocking nervously on his haunches in a back corridor adjacent to the drab courtroom where for the past six weeks he and the prosecutor had argued over Edelin's guilt or innocence...
...LONG AFTER the Edelin jury heard the last of Judge McGuire's instructions and left the courtroom to seek a verdict, a harried prosecutor New man Flanagan tried once more to hammer out some of the complex issues of the Commonwealth's case. For Flanagan, the trial was over. Instead of jurors he faced a dozen or so reporters, some standing beside the empty benches, some sitting in the jury box itself. But while he waited for the sequestered jury to come in with a verdict the prosecutor continued to wrestle with the reporters' questions about his version of what...
...defense that the fetus was dead when it was removed from the womb. McGuire did not acquit Edelin, unfortunately, but gave those definitions to the jury. Inevitably, the recollection of those five minutes from the judge was blocked out by the memory of the 70 minutes from the shouting prosecutor who talked about the "right to live...