Legal Opinion
In Re Dillon
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided February 26, 1996No. 2960PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MONTEMURO, Judge.
These cross appeals he from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Susquehanna County denying an emergency petition for disinterment and reautopsy of the deceased, Martin T. Dillon, filed by petitioner Patricia Dillon Scher, supported by intervenors Suzanne R. Dillon and Michael Dillon, and granting the disclosure to petitioner of an autopsy report in the possession of the Commonwealth.
On June 2,1976, the deceased, Martin T. Dillon, died from a shotgun blast to the chest. The gun belonged to Stephen Scher, M.D., a close friend with whom the deceased had been shooting clay…
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- Commonwealth v. MarshallSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Commonwealth v. KivlinSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
- Leschey v. LescheySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1953
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