Legal Opinion

Kopechne Petition

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Luzerne County

Decided September 2, 1969No. Crim. no. 1114 of 1969Published

1Opinion of the Court

BROMINSKI, P. J.,

This matter comes before the court upon motion of Joseph A. Ko*580pechne and Gwen L. Kopechne, parents of Mary Jo Kopechne, deceased, to dismiss the petition of Edmund Dinis, District Attorney for the Southern District of Massachusetts, and Robert W. Nevin, M.D., Medical Examiner for Dukes County, Massachusetts, requesting a hearing on whether an exhumation and autopsy of the body of Mary Jo Kopechne should be allowed.

The relevant portion of the petition for exhumation and autopsy recites:

“2) That there is now pending in said Dukes County an inquest under Massachusetts General…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. State v. WoodSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1928
  2. Roberts v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1951

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