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After the shooting, Longet told police that she had found a .22-cal. pistol in the house and had decided to ask Sabich how to operate it, thinking the gun would be good protection when he was away. As they talked the gun fired, hitting him in the abdomen. Murder...
Susan E. Saxe yesterday received a 10 to 12 year prison term after entering a plea of guilty to two charges of robbery and one charge of manslaughter.
As part of her guilty plea, Saxe admitted to taking part in a 1970 bank robbery in which a Boston policeman was killed. John T. Gaffney, first assistant district attorney, said yesterday Saxe was allowed to receive a reduced charge of manslaughter because she felt shooting the patrolman was not...
MORE THAN for the legal definition of birth which it offers as a precedent, the recent decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to acquit Kenneth C. Edelin is important for the support it gives to a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. The conviction of Dr. Edelin for...
According to the original trial judge, James P. Maguire, only proof that the fetus ever lived outside the mother's body would have legally constituted birth and subjected Edelin to a possible manslaughter conviction. But from the beginning the prosecution's case to prove a live birth rested on a...