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Judge James P. McGurre surprised many in his Suffolk County Superior Court Friday when he delivered a charge to the jury that appeared to destroy the prospect for conviction, but these instructions were only a reflection of the tremendous preponderance of evidence that supported the doctor's in nocence. The defense had shown sternly that no human being ever existed as a result of the abortion operation Edelin undertook, October 3, 1973 and had argued compelling that a doctor should not be prosecuted retroactively lot an action he regarded as medically and legally legitimate...
...role in Cambridge politics, but he can still be seen sipping coffee every morning with his brethren over at Wursthaus, as he has for the last 20 years. Although Frank Cardullo, proprietor of Wursthaus and klatch-master of the Rinky Dinks, a club consisting of several Middlesex and Suffolk County judges and a handful of registrars, insists that the conversation is lighthearted political fun, it is widely held that DeGuiglielmo plotted the coup that would overthrew John Curry in 1966 and place himself in as city manager, while eating with friends at Wursthaus...
Edelin is charged in Suffolk County with killing a fetus which the prosecution says was 24 weeks in gestational age and could have lived if Edelin had allowed it to survive the October 1973 operation...
...Pause from this time on Sir," the attorney a large man in a dark blue suit said gruffly as he stared down at his watch in apparent ignorance of the tableau he had just created in room 906 of the Suffolk County Court house. For the jury man watching earnestly the partisans in the gallery had stopped rustling their literature the prosecutor was suffering quietly with his back in Edelin, the reporters had stopped taking notes, the officious court officers were sitting in glum disability, and the judge had yielded his court to an cerie silence and the imaginary proscenium...
...defense thus delivered its most striking, if non-verbal, testimony in the Suffolk County manslaughter trial of Dr. Kenneth Edelin. And even if it was all for effect, it was more than matched the intense description of an act of manslaughter that prosecutor Newman A. Flanagan, assistant district attorney, had been imaging repeatedly since his opening argument. And it was precisely that description that the defense was attempting to explode in its drama over the table...