Flanagan

Newman A. Flanagan, the Suffolk County assistant district attorney who successfully prosecuted Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin for manslaughter, said this week that he will also argue the commonwealth's case in the fetal experimentation indictments of four Boston City Hospital researchers.

Flanagan conducted the investigation at BCH in the fall of 1973 that produced the Edelin indictment--an investigation prompted by the four doctors' publication in the June 1973 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine of a study they had done using cultures of fetal tissue.

Two of the doctors, who were indicated in April 1974, were then associated with Harvard: Dr. Leon D. Sabath '52, formerly an associate professor of Medicine, and Dr. Leonard D. Berman, assistant professor of Pathology.