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Judi Lynn

(160,598 posts) Tue Feb 23, 2016, 06:41 PM Feb 2016

The Latest: Defense not given evidence in home invasion case

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Defense not given evidence in home invasion case

Updated 4:20 pm, Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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This undated inmate identification photo released Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, by the Connecticut Department of Correction shows Joshua Komisarjevsky, convicted of murder and other crimes during a 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Conn. Killed were Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, ages 11 and 17. Her husband William Petit was severely beaten but survived. Appellate lawyers for Komisarjevsky are expected to argue Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016 in New Haven Superior Court that his trial lawyers weren’t provided with police phone call recordings crucial to the defense. (Connecticut Department of Correction via AP)
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The Latest on a man's bid for a new trial in the killing of a woman and her two daughters during a brutal 2007 home invasion in Connecticut (all times local):

5:10 p.m.

A Connecticut judge has ruled that three police recordings weren't given to lawyers for a man convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters during a brutal 2007 home invasion.

The findings by New Haven Superior Court Judge Jon Blue on Tuesday provide a boost to Joshua Komisarjevsky's (koh-mih-sar-JEF'-skeez) pending appeal before the state Supreme Court. The recordings are of calls between officers during the response to the home invasion.

Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes were convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, at their Cheshire home.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/The-Latest-Defense-not-given-evidence-in-home-6849928.php

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The Latest: Defense not given evidence in home invasion case (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2016 OP

The evidence was not exculpatory and the guilt is overwhelming in this case. Shrike47 Feb 2016 #1

If ever there was a moment to call a SWAT team n/t catrose Feb 2016 #2

A lot of the state doesn't have one close. NutmegYankee Feb 2016 #4

I didn't know that catrose Feb 2016 #5

And the two perps were caught escaping the burning home. LisaL Feb 2016 #3

Shrike47

(6,913 posts)

1. The evidence was not exculpatory and the guilt is overwhelming in this case.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 07:18 PM

Feb 2016

The defendant raped an 11 year old girl during a home invasion robbery while the police were sitting outside discussing what to do. Defendant photograped himself raping the 11 year old. He and his co-defendant then set the house on fire with the 11 year old and her sister tied to their beds. They burned to death.

He and his co-defendant were apprehended immediately.

The tapes in question are of police officers talking to each other about what to do.

catrose

(5,071 posts)

2. If ever there was a moment to call a SWAT team n/t

Reply to Shrike47 (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 07:24 PM

Feb 2016

NutmegYankee

(16,201 posts)

4. A lot of the state doesn't have one close.

Reply to catrose (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 07:45 PM

Feb 2016

Connecticut is made up of 169 independent towns and cities, there is no county government. Not even a sheriff. The only SWAT team is the state police, and that would have to be called up into duty.

catrose

(5,071 posts)

5. I didn't know that

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 09:17 PM

Feb 2016

I thought, being Northeast and all, that they'd have everything. I read about SWAT teams doing all kinds of godawful things--here they might have saved lives. But they weren't here, and the police didn't know what to do.

LisaL

(44,974 posts)

3. And the two perps were caught escaping the burning home.

Reply to Shrike47 (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 07:40 PM

Feb 2016

So there is no doubt whatsoever they are guilty.

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