State appeals court grants new trial in fatal bar attack
March 16, 2021
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BOSTON (AP) The Massachusetts Appeals Court, citing improper conduct by the prosecution, has granted a new trial to a man convicted of killing another man in an unprovoked attack in a Quincy bar.
Paul Fahey was convicted of second-degree murder in 2017 for allegedly punching and stomping on the head of Keith Boudreau in the now-closed Home Ice Sports Bar in March 2015. Boudreau, 42, died days later at the hospital.
The court in its decision Monday called the prosecutor s missteps “pervasive and in many instances “egregious.”
“We agree with the defendant that a new trial is warranted based on the cumulative effect of the prosecutor’s improper cross-examination and inflammatory closing argument,” Milkey said in the decision.
State appeals court grants new trial in fatal bar attack
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