How to Use prothonotary in a Sentence
prothonotary
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Sayers, for example, claimed that his office’s autopsy reports were all in the custody of the prothonotary.
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Jonah Walters,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
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In all counties with fewer than 500,000 residents, the law requires coroners to deposit the past year’s records with the county prothonotary at the beginning of each new year.
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Jonah Walters,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
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Coroner Graham Hetrick denied our request and told us to look for autopsy reports at the prothonotary’s office, despite never having deposited them there.
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Jonah Walters,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
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In two of those counties – Lancaster and Lehigh – previous court decisions explicitly ordered the coroners to deposit autopsy reports with the prothonotary.
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Jonah Walters,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
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In counties with fewer than 500,000 residents – that’s currently 60 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties – the coroner is still required to deposit all autopsy reports and other records for the preceding year with the prothonotary.
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Jonah Walters,
The Conversation,
24 June 2026
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