Word: allens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first trial, Mundy has argued that the defendants made a premeditated attack on the football players after several members of the team chased a prostitute they thought had stolen the wallet of Charles Kaye '78. The defense says Easterling, Soares and Allen acted independently in coming to the prostitute...
Henry F. Owens III, Allen's attorney, said yesterday Mundy "has made an obvious attempt to influence the jury with evidence that has nothing to do with the trial," adding that information on the defendants' past associations with prostitutes should not be presented to the jury...
Puopolo died on Dec. 17, 1976, in Tufts-New England Medical Center. Easterling, Soares and Richard S. Allen were convicted of the murder in March 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial earlier this year because the prosecution had systematically eliminated blacks from the jury. The three defendants are black...
Axel also said she saw Allen near the site of the stabbings on Boylston St. with "six or seven other black men" on the morning of the stabbings...
Henry F. Owens III, Allen's attorney, said "prior crimes are not admissible as evidence unless there are some extenuating circumstances," adding that Mundy was trying to "prejudice the minds of the jurors...