Word: puopolo
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...Puopolo died on December 17, 1976, a month after Easterling stabbed him during a fight between several Harvard football players and the defendants in Boston's Combat Zone...
Judge James P. McGuire of Suffolk Country Superior Court yesterday sentenced Leon J. Easterling to 18-20 years in the Massachusetts State Penitentiary at Walpole for the 1976 fatal stabbing of Andrew P. Puopolo...
Leon J. Easterling, who testified that he stabbed Puopolo during a brawl between Harvard football players and the three defendants, was convicted of manslaughter; but the jury found him not guilty of assault and battery with a deadly weapon in the stabbing of Thomas J. Lincoln '77, another football player...
Easterling and his two co-defendants, Richard S. Allen and Edward J. Soares, were found guilty of murdering Puopolo in March 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial earlier this year. The court found that the prosecution in the first trial had systematically eliminated blacks from the jury. Easterling, Soares and Allen are black...
...fighting ended when Easterling stabbed Puopolo in an alley off Boylston Street. Puopolo died a month later in Tufts-New England Medical Center...