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Alabama university suspect wants report kept secret

Ex-professor faces murder charges

By Denise Lavoie

 |  Associated Press  

  January 26, 2012

An Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues will ask a judge on Wednesday to keep a report into the 1986 killing of her brother secret. The highest court in Massachusetts ruled last month that a judge’s inquest report into the death of Amy Bishop’s brother Seth can be released publicly. But the court also said Amy Bishop’s lawyer, prosecutors and others could go to court to argue that there is “good cause’’ why it should remain sealed.

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