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Three Massachusetts Jurors Ask Judge to Retry Case of Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for 1991 Bombing that Killed a Boston Police Officer

By Altman & Altman

In Massachusetts, three of the jurors who helped convict a man for the 1991 bombing that maimed on Boston police officer and murdered another are asking a federal judge to either grant Alfred Trenkler a new trial or free him. Trenkler was convicted in 1993 of making a bomb that killed Boston Police Officer Jeremiah J. Hurley Jr. and caused Boston Police Officer Francis X Foley to lose his eye, as well as his hearing in one ear. Now, however, three of the jurors who helped put him behind bars are having doubts about the guilty verdict they reached and they are questioning whether he was wrongly convicted. The jurors sent letters to US District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel citing their doubts. Sheridan Kassirer, the jury forewoman in Trenkler?s criminal case, even has gone so far as to say that she thinks Trenkler may be innocence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).