A Suffolk Superior Court jury wasted little time finding Edward Corliss guilty of first-degree murder today for killing Tedeschi clerk Surendra Dangol, who gave Corliss everything he asked for during a December, 2009 holdup, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Corliss will be formally sentenced on Thursday, but first-degree murder convictions carry a mandatory life term without possibility of parole. Corliss was on parole for murdering a Salisbury store clerk in 1971 when he gunned down Dangol, a Nepali immigrant working to bring his family to the United States. It was Corliss's parole officer who led police to him, after he noticed Corliss was driving a car with an Obama bumper sticker, which he found odd for a criminal from Somerville.
Corliss, whose criminal record dates to 1962, originally faced another trial on charges he tried to hire a fellow inmate to murder his wife, who drove him away from the Tedeschi as Dangol lay dying inside the store. Prosecutors, however, dropped that case.
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What is this, 1984?
By BikerGeek
Tue, 09/27/2011 - 3:23pm
An Obama sticker, "unusual" for Somerville? The last time I can imagine Somerville voting Republican was in '84 when the Commonwealth went for Reagan. Even then, Middlesex County went for Mondale. (Source: Wikipedia election map)
Corliss was driving a car
By NotWhitey
Tue, 09/27/2011 - 3:30pm
It's not that he was from Somerville - it's that he was a criminal from Somerville. Apparently, thugs in Somerville vote GOP.
I assumed it was a general
By pierce
Tue, 09/27/2011 - 6:06pm
I assumed it was a general "old white townie" stereotype (post-Kennedy era)
Obama sticker in Somerville is not unusual
By Ron Newman
Tue, 09/27/2011 - 7:47pm
We took some note of this in Davis Square LiveJournal the last time it came up here in UHub.
My condolences to the Dangol family
By Will LaTulippe
Tue, 09/27/2011 - 3:37pm
I'm sorry that your son/husband/father could not emigrate to a state where killers are not set free to kill again like they are here.
I hope somebody stomps on Corliss' chest until he suffocates John Geoghan-style.
Two options
By anon²
Wed, 09/28/2011 - 11:30am
Raise taxes to expand the MA prison system.
or
Decriminalize all drugs offenses that don't involve violence or theft.
Take your pick Will.
The latter
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 09/28/2011 - 12:27pm
Clearly.
Or we could have just, you know, executed him 40 years ago instead of kicking the can to 2011.