Word: retrial
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...court acquitted Easterling's two codefendants, Edward J. Soares and Richard S. Allen on November 21. All three were convicted of first-degree murder in March 1977, but the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted them a retrial last March...
...jury in the Puopolo murder retrial last Wednesday acquitted two of the three defendants and convicted the third of manslaughter. The three were charged with first-degree murder for the fatal stabbing of Andrew P. Puopolo '77 in Boston's Combat Zone three years...
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...
...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...
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...