The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Edward Corliss of Roslindale, who has a criminal record dating to 1962, got a fair trial for the 2009 shooting death of Surendra Dangol and that it saw no reason to overturn his first-degree murder conviction.
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By adamg - Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:34pm
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.
By adamg - Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:36am
The Herald reports an Obama sticker on the car of Edward Corliss, charged with murdering a
By adamg - Wed, 09/07/2011 - 10:04am
Edward Corliss, the Roslindale man who's already spent time in jail for killing one store clerk, could go on trial in a few days on charges he killed another in December, 2009.
By adamg - Tue, 07/20/2010 - 2:34pm
Corliss charged with trying to rub out getaway
driver - his wife.Edward Corliss, the Roslindale man who's already spent time in jail for killing one store clerk and now faces trial for killing another, tried to get another inmate to kill his wife and two other people he suspected of ratting him out, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
Proseuctors also charged Corliss sought the inmate's help in busting him out of custody by gunning down guards taking him to court or to a doctor's appointment at Shattuck Hospital - for which Corliss allegedly promised to pay him $2 million from the proceeds of an armored-car holdup he was planning for after his escape.
By adamg - Wed, 07/14/2010 - 4:39pm
RMV photoEdward Corliss, who is charged with murdering a Nepali immigrant working at a Jamaica Plain Tedeschi store, was indicted today on four counts of witness intimidation.
Corliss, locked up at MCI Cedar Junction while awaiting trial for Surendra Dangol's murder in December, 2009, "sought to have a soon-to-be-released inmate murder three individuals he believed had provided authorities with evidence against him," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said in a statement.
The DA's office says Corliss promised that inmate with proceeds from an armored-car heist he was also planning in exchange for murdering the three witnesses and for keeping quiet.
Each of the new counts carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Corliss is scheduled for arraignment tomorrow afternoon in Suffolk Superior Court on the intimidation charges.
Corliss, 64, of Roslindale, has already served one sentence for second-degree murder for the 1972 death of a store cleark in Salisbury.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - Wed, 03/03/2010 - 1:17pm
The Globe reports that Edward Corliss tried to get rid of the gun he allegedly used to murder JP convenience store clerk Surendra Dangol by tossing it into the ocea
By adamg - Tue, 01/19/2010 - 11:14am
Edward Corliss of Roslindale was ordered held without bail today on charges he gunned down a convenience-store clerk who gave him everything he wanted - which turned out to be $746 in cash, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
By adamg - Thu, 01/14/2010 - 3:05pm
RMV photoPolice today charged a Roslindale resident on parole for gunning down a convenience-store owner 38 years ago with the shooting death of Surendra Dangol, a clerk at the Tedeschi store on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain.
Edward P. Corliss, 63, was charged with murder and other crimes and is scheduled for arraignment on Tuesday in West Roxbury District Court. In 1972, Corliss was convicted of second-degree murder for the shooting death of the owner of a small store in Salisbury the year before - while on the lam from a Rhode Island prison work camp to which he'd been sent on a breaking-and-entering conviction.
By adamg - Thu, 12/31/2009 - 1:11pm
WBUR reports that U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano showed the U.S. embassy in Katmandu the stupidity of its ways and that it will issue a visa for Surendra Dangol's nine-year-old daughter after all.
By adamg - Wed, 12/30/2009 - 8:12pm
Provide "information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the shooting death of 39-year-old Surendra Dangol" and the reward is yours, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
By adamg - Tue, 12/29/2009 - 12:44pm
Boston Police have released surveillance video of the holdup of the Jamaica Plain Tedeschi, showing clerk Surendra Dangol was completely cooperating with the holdup man
By adamg - Mon, 12/28/2009 - 4:54pm
Boston Police today identified the Tedeschi clerk shot to death on Saturday as Surendra Dangol, 39, of Somerville. The Himalayan Times reports Dangol was a native of Katmandu, Nepal and was saving up to bring his wife and nine-year-old daughter here.
Police also released photos of the car the gunman apparently got away in and of the bewigged murderer:
