PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By John P. Martin
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said today she suggested the county coroner conduct an examination of the body of Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua because the timing of his death struck her as “peculiar”
Ferman said her office is not conducting a criminal inquiry into the death.
The prosecutor addressed the issue a day after county coroner Walter I. Hofman confirmed he examined the body of the 88-year-old prelate and has deferred declaring a cause of death until he see toxicology test results.
Hofman said Thursday he had been asked to conduct the review because the cardinal died one day after a Philadelphia judge said he could be called to testify next month at the child sex abuse and endangerment trial of three current and former priests.
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