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Court rules Allston man got fair trial and was properly convicted for stabbing and strangling wife to death, then mutilating her body

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld Da Lin Huang's first-degree murder conviction for the death of his estranged wife in their Allston apartment in 2001.

The state's highest court ruled that although the lead prosecutor and one witness in the case said things they shouldn't have, the mistakes were minor compared to the overwhelming evidence that Huang sent his two young children on a walk on a cold winter day to a relative's house 45 minutes away, then used a knife and his hands to kill his wife, Gin Hua Xu, mutilate her body and try to kill himself with pain killers - an attempt foiled when first responders managed to break into the now blood-splattered Cambridge Street apartment and revive him with Narcan.

The court also rejected his argument that his intellectual impairment, possibly caused by a 1999 car accident, made life without parole cruel and unusual punishment, ruling that evidence during the case showed that while he did have problems, at the time of the murder he "had reasonably high-level adaptive functionality, including testimony that he cooked, cleaned, and cared for his children, and helped his son with math homework."

Although Huang was indicted in 2001, he did not come to trial until 2010. A Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted him of first-degree murder for extreme atrocity or cruelty.

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