KOPECHNE PETITION

No. 1114 of 1969.

47 Pa. D. & C. 2d 579 (1969)

Kopechne Petition

Common Pleas Court of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

September 2, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund Dinis, District Attorney, Dukes County, Massachusetts, Peter Gay, Armand Fernandes, Assistant District Attorneys and Lance Garth, for petitioners.

Joseph F. Flanagan and John E. O'Connor, contra.

Blythe H. Evans, Jr., District Attorney, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.


BROMINSKI, P. J., September 2, 1969.

This matter comes before the court upon motion of Joseph A. Kopechne 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...

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