Neil Entwistle - Post Sentencing

[ohiogirl]

They remind me of the Coleman family. The evidence in this case was open and shut, iirc. I can't see an appeal working. But, you gotta try, right?

[Reader]

Man who killed wife, baby loses appeal in Mass.

http://www.centurylink.net/news/read...&cps=0&lang=en

BOSTON (AP) — The highest court in Massachusetts rejected the appeal of a British man convicted of killing his wife and baby daughter in their rented home, saying in its decision released Tuesday that warrantless searches of the home were justified because those inside might have been in danger.

In arguing for a new trial, lawyers for Neil Entwistle said evidence obtained during the warrantless searches of the Hopkinton home while police were looking for the missing family should have been dismissed at trial. They also argued that media coverage made it impossible to get an impartial jury.

The court rejected the arguments, concluding that Entwistle "received a fair trial that was ably tried and judged."............

Prosecutors were pleased the Supreme Judicial Court affirmed Entwistle's conviction and found grounds of his appeal baseless, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said in a statement Tuesday.

"Neil Entwistle will continue to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the unimaginable, unforgiveable acts he committed against Rachel and baby Lillian," the statement also read in part.


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