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State appeals court grants new trial in fatal bar attack March 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 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. ....