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Rumors about further legal action against Kennedy began to fly when Justice James Boyle filed the inquest transcript and his own report last February. Promptly impounded, the documents were brought to Boston, where Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro ordered them locked in an office safe. The next day Kennedy's lawyer, Edward Hanify, asked to see the transcript of his client's testimony. Before this first request could be acted upon, however, Hanify filed a second petition, whose contents are unknown because he asked that it be impounded. The second petition apparently concerned Boyle...
Accusatory Proceeding. The inquest rules specified that no documents were to be released to the public if a possibility existed of further proceedings against any of those involved in the accident. Thus Hanify's concern and the delays in printing the transcript led many to surmise that Boyle had recommended a grand jury inquiry. Further action was delayed by the absence of Dinis, who was vacationing in Portugal...
...about the same time, 50 students turned up in Lowell House Courtyard to hear John W. Curtis '70 read a transcript of the address delivered by Joseph Warren on March 5, 1772, on the first anniversary of the Massacre...
Further, the undersigned abhor the medieval atmosphere and procedures of the hearings conducted by the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. That Committee's disclaimer does not decrease the repugnance of closed, heavily-guarded trials of which there is no public transcript made available and from which there is no appeal to any higher body. The simple fact that Harvard is a private institution does not exempt it from employing the most rudimentary standards of justice in disciplinary relationships with its students...
...actions. It also offers an opportunity for the student to question the Committee and the complainant and to discuss informally with both a wide range of matters, some only indirectly related to the specific charge. A public hearing-or a hearing made public by means of a verbatim transcript or tape recording-would inhibit many if not all parties to these discussions and lead the Committee (or its hearing panel) to play the role of silent judge, presiding over an adversary contest between complainant and student. In criminal trials, such detachment may be necessary and desirable, but in the affairs...