Word: vineyard
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Originally, the inquest was to have begun Sept. 3 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. But Kennedy's lawyers argued that the inquest would not really be a neutral inquiry. They said that it would be an adversary proceeding in which Kennedy-under the guidelines set by District Court Judge James Boyle -would be denied crucial rights. Boyle had wanted to open the inquest to press coverage and to deny Kennedy's attorneys the right to cross-examine witnesses called by District Attorney Edmund Dinis. Therefore, Kennedy petitioned a higher court to order the inquest to be held...
...Neapolitan-accented Italian to drive away. Only three miles out of Rome, Minichiello ordered Guli from the car and then drove on a short distance before jumping out and heading across the fields. As some 800 police and four helicopters fanned out in search, Minichiello wandered through the vineyard-dotted countryside for more than four hours, changing his clothes at least twice and finally abandoning the carbine and a bag with 250 rounds of ammunition. Police caught up with him at the 18th century Sanctuary of the Madonna of Divine Love, just a mile from the Via Appia Antica, where...
...wanted an autopsy. But, said he, by the time he had decided to order one the day after Mary Jo's death, he was informed that the body had been flown back to Pennsylvania. Actually, the body was still waiting in a plane at the Martha's Vineyard airport...
Last week, 17 hours before the inquest In Re: Mary Jo Kopechne was to begin on Martha's Vineyard, the state's highest court intervened, delaying the proceeding for at least several weeks and temporarily awarding Edward M. Kennedy a legal victory. Justice Paul Reardon ordered a postponement until the full seven-member supreme court, now in recess, could hear arguments on whether an inquest governed by Judge Boyle's ground rules would be a violation of Kennedy's constitutional rights...
...rules are legally sound. Traditionally in Massachusetts, the very loosely formulated procedures of an inquest are left to the presiding judge, who may or may not exclude the public and press. Precedents on inquests in the state are vague. Only two inquests have been held on Martha's Vineyard in the past 40 years. One, in 1932, concluded that a man named Valdimer Victor Messer evidently sat on a keg of dynamite wired to a battery and dematerialized himself...