Saturday, January 26, 2013
A woman had alleged that Montgomery County Coroner Walter Hofman violated her due process rights by withholding a suicide note written to her by her deceased son.
Montgomery County Coroner Walter I. Hofman did not violate a woman's due process rights when he refused to release a suicide note written to her by her deceased son, a federal judge ruled on Jan. 23. The Pennsylvania Record reports that U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter dismissed a lawsuit filed last summer by resident Lisa Feldman against Hofman. Feldman's son, Evan Klausen, committed suicide in September 2011. He left a suicide note to his mother and others on the dining room table of his home. When Hofman took possession of the body for a coroner's investigation, he also took possession of the suicide note. According to court documents, Hofman returned Evan's possessions to Feldman on the same day he ruled the death a suicide, but …
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Montgomery County Coroner Walter Hofman said Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua died of natural causes.
Montgomery County Coroner Walter Hofman addressed the media in a press conference at Montgomery County Human Services Center today to reveal his findings in the Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua autopsy. According to Hoffman, Bevilacqua's official cause of death was arterial sclerotic cardiovascular disease and contributing carcinoma of the prostate, or prostat cancer. The manner of death was declared as natural causes. Hoffman said there was no injury to the body and no indication of any strangulation or choking and the prescribed medications found in the cardinal's body were all within generally accepted levels. After walking reporters through the series of events leading up to the autopsy, Hofman took questions about Cardinal Bevilacqua's …
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Rachel Rymann's blood-alcohol levels were 0.24 and 0.32 percent following DUI arrests in May 2010 and November 2011. She continues to operate vehicles owned by the county coroner's office.
A medical investigator with the Montgomery County Coroner's Office continues to drive a county vehicle despite two DUI arrests in the last 19 months. Official police crash reports obtained by Patch indicate that Rachel Rymann, 33, was charged with DUI and careless driving following a crash in Lansdale on Nov. 10 in which her 2001 Chrysler Sebring damaged three parked vehicles on East Main Street in the borough. Rymann's blood alcohol level (BAC) was tested at 0.32 percent, four times the state's legal limit of 0.08, according to the police report. That incident followed a May 2010 arrest in North Wales, in which Rymann struck a parked vehicle on East Walnut Street with her 2000 Mitsubishi Eclipse. Rymann's BAC at the time of that crash was…
Tracy
8:11 am on Thursday, January 5, 2012
..sorry to hear about your property damage, but am thankful you and your family were not inside the vehicles when they were hit. It is still the fact that because of her immature, selfish and ignorant choices your (and other) families have to deal with a lot of unnecessary aggravation and financial loss. Good luck more ›