Word: puopolo
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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...
Francis E. Dutton, an MBTA employee, testified during a special session on Saturday he saw defendant Edward Soares beating Andrew P. Puopolo '77 after Puopolo had been stabbed in the abdomen. Raymond "Scott" Coolidge '78, another member of the Harvard football team, testified on Friday that he saw Leon Easterling, another defendant, repeatedly stab Puopolo in the chest near the van in which several of the players travelled to the Zone for a traditional end-of-season celebration...
Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk County assistant district attorney, said the defendants cooperated with prostitues who attempted to rob Charles Kaye '77, a teammate of Puopolo's, by "creating confusion and commotion to allow (the prostitutes) to escape...
Eyewitnesses in the first trial testified that Leon Easterling was the only person who stabbed Puopolo and Thomas Lincoln '77, another team member. Mundy is trying to prove that all three defendants are guilty of first-degree murder because their attack on the football players was premeditated...
...Puopolo died on Dec. 17, 1976, a month after the stabbing, in New England Medical Center. Easterling, Richard S. Allen and Edward Soares were convicted of the murder in March 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial earlier this year after ruling the prosecution in the original trial had systematically eliminated blacks from the jury. The defendants are black...