Neil Entwistle files appeal
Neil Entwistle filed a brief today in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts appealing his two first-degree murder convictions. In what was, incidentally, the first legal case I ever attended, Entwistle was convicted in June 2008 of murdering his wife, Rachel, and baby, Lillian.
Not surprisingly, Entwistle’s appellate lawyer, Steven Paul Maidman, focused on the warrantless search of Entwistle’s Hopkinton home, carried out by police officers at the request of worried friends and relatives. He also argues that the trial judge did not adequately question jurors about their exposure to (often sensational and biased) media coverage of the case.
Source: AP/Boston Herald