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GREENFIELD — A former Greenfield man who has been in prison for 25 years after he was convicted of a 1994 murder is in the middle of a motion hearing so a Franklin County Superior Court judge can decide whether to grant him a new trial.Elvio J....
WHEN FIREFIGHTERS ARRIVED at 102 Belair Street in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the predawn hours of April 17, 2003, they observed two teenagers poking their heads out of second-floor windows. One of the teens was 17-year-old Frances Choy, who, awakened by her mother’s scream of “Frances, there’s a fire!” had called 911 on her cell phone. The other was Kenneth Choy, Frances’s 16-year-old nephew. Inside the house, a fire was burning with such intensity that it had melted wall fixtures, and thick smoke had trapped Frances, Kenneth, and Frances’s parents—Jimmy and Anne Choy—in thei...