Legal Opinion
In Re Kravitz
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 12, 1980No. H.C. 635PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
NEALON, Chief Judge.
Petitioner Ethel Kravitz was found guilty of the murder of her husband by a jury in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in 1958. She sought to overturn that conviction through various judicial and extra-judicial proceedings for more than twenty-one years. On January 17, 1980, after evidentiary hearings into the substantive merits of her claims had been concluded, but before the legal issues could be presented for resolution, Mrs. Kravitz passed away. 1
Death terminates Mrs. Kravitz’s long, personal quest for vindication. Her attorneys argue, however, that death does…
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