Philadelphia court case over Ellen Greenberg’s ‘suicide’ by stabbing ends with a whimper - Penn Live
In early September, Judge Linda A. Carpenter delivered an extended tongue-lashing to the city attorney representing the medical examiner over why Ellen Greenberg’s manner of death hadn’t been changed from suicide to undetermined.
“The court is frustrated. I never really understood why this couldn’t be changed to ‘undetermined’ from the beginning,” Carpenter said.
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Only, the new report didn’t do what so many court observers, including apparently the judge, were expecting. The 35-page report based on a six-month re-examination of all the evidence in the case didn’t vacate the suicide ruling in Ellen’s brutal, bloody death.
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So, as the hearing convened, the Greenbergs and their attorneys had received their long-awaited report. It just didn’t say what they wanted it to say.
As Greenberg attorney Joseph Podraza indicated to Judge Carpenter, that is a matter for another day – and another case, should the Greenbergs choose to bring what would be a third civil suit in their daughter’s death.
For now, the Ellen Greenberg court case is over. And her parents’ 14-year battle for “justice for Ellen” is at a pause.
The anticlimactic ending took all of a minute or two to wrap up.
“We consider this matter closed, at least for the petition that was before the court,” Podraza told the judge. “What the future holds, we will see.”