Bernard S. Meyer

Age: 89

Summary: former judge of the New York State Court of Appeals who led an investigation in 1975 into the state's handling of crimes arising from the Attica prison revolt in 1971, whose findings were released in the form of a 570-page volume called The Meyer Report that concluded that there had been no intentional cover-up by the prosecution, who was also a senior partner in the New York law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein.

Cause of Death: Heart failure

Born: June 7, 1916

Died: September 3, 2005

Location: Valley Stream, New York