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...prosecution in the Andrew P. Puopolo '77 murder retrial argued yesterday that the three defendants acted together when they fought with Harvard football players in Boston's Combat Zone on the morning of the fatal stabbing...
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...
Instead of the highly-charged atmosphere of the original procedings, the retrial--ordered last spring by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court because of the prosecution's systematic exclusion of blacks from the first jury--has moved along slowly, the four lawyers using technicalities to gain the upper hand...
...March, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted a new trial to the three men convicted of the 1976 killing of Andrew P. Puopolo '77. The presiding judge said prosecution abuses in the jury selection prompted the retrial. Puopolo died Dec. 17, 1976, of stabbing wounds sustained in Boston's Combat Zone while celebrating the end of the football season with the team...
...recent hirings come six months after the disputed firing of two police officers. Richard D. O'Connor was fired in December for allegedly breaking into a car at the Everett St. garage. Earlier this month, a Massachusetts Superior Court jury failed to return a verdict, subjecting the case to retrial later this year...