Word: murders
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...prosecution in the Andrew P. Puopolo '77 murder retrial yesterday presented testimony which it believes will further prove that the attack on Harvard football players in November, 1976 was premeditated. The jury can convict the three defendants of first-degree murder if premeditation is proven...
Before Miller testified, Norman S. Zalkind, attorney for defendant Leon Easterling, said the evidence the detective could offer was "so prejudicial and so irrelevant that it taints the prosecution of this case," adding that it was "not evidence that leads to conviction for murder or assault...
Puopolo died on Dec. 17,1976, a month after he was stabbed. Easterling, Soares and Allen were convicted of the murder in March, 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial earlier this year because the court said the prosecution had systematically eliminated blacks from the jury. The three defendants are black...
While witnesses in the Puopolo murder retrial described the 1976 confrontation in Boston's Combat Zone in increasingly bloody detail last week, defense attorneys continued to accuse the prosecution of manipulating 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...