The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered new hearings to determine whether a man convicted of killing 10-year-old Trina Persad in a Roxbury park in 2002 deserves a new trial in part because his lawyer represented a BPD homicide detective and lieutenant in a suit over another child-murder case. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court judge has ordered a new trial for Joseph Cousin, convicted of second-degree murder for the 2002 death of Trina Persad, 10, because of a possible conflict of interest on his lawyer's part.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office is appealing the ruling. Read more.
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