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Documentary Record of  Sephton V. FBI

 

                                                                                      Updated: May 2005

 

The following links provide the most important records filed in the FOI lawsuit to obtain the foreign body forensic evidence from the FBI.

 

Order: Most recent Court Records (CR#) listed first.

 

Other Court documents from the lawsuit Sephton V. FBI can all found at the US Court Document Website:

http://www.pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/

 

Notice of Appeal, First Circuit, May 2005

Judge Ponsor’s final ruling in favor of FBI, March 2005

FBI Motion, July 2004

Sephton Motion, July 2004

   CR80_Sephton Suplmtl Declaration- July 2004

       (CR80) Sephton Exhibits, July 2004

CR76 FBI Motion (includes FBI’s Carl Declaration )  Jun 2004

CR69_Lab Search Required_Sephton_Apr03

        (CR69) Sephton Exhibits

CR44_FBI’s Rawlinson Declaration, ~April 2003

Appeals Court, Vacates the lower court ruling and remands the case again

Judge Ponsor’s First Ruling in favor of FBI

CR40_Whitehurst Declaration, Dec 2002

1B-28, item #10; Brookhaven Lab Analysis provided by Don Collins

“1B-28” Foreign Body Listing

~250 more pages released – SAMPLING – link first to an index and explanation of those 3 groupings or categories

CR36_FBI’s Kiefer Declaration, Dec 2002

CR33_Appeals Court Remand: Favoring Sephton & remanded back to lower court

CR25_Notice of Appeal to First Circuit, Boston, Oct2001

CR23_Judge Freedman Ruling, in favor of FBI, Aug 2001

7 more pages released_Victims with foreign bodies removed in autopsies (summary)

FBI’s Hodes Declaration

CR_1 Filed Complaint in Springfield Federal District Court, 7/18/2000

~17 pages released

FBI Response to Appeal

Sephton FOI Administrative Appeal

FBI 1st Response: ~”No!”

Sephton FOI request to the FBI for forensic details September 1998  (a similar request had been sent to NTSB)

NTSB FOI Response: ~ “…we have no forensic details…