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Supreme Judicial Court Overturns Massachusetts Murder Conviction of West Springfield Widow

By Altman & Altman

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The Supreme Judicial Court has overturned Joann Sliech-Brodeur?s Massachusetts first-degree murder conviction. Sliech-Brodeur was convicted of killing her husband Joseph Brodeur, who was stabbed 34 times with a kitchen knife and may have sustained blunt force head trauma from a ?pry bar? on July 28, 2004. During Sliech-Brodeur?s criminal defense trial, the defense claimed that Sliech-Brodeur?s long-standing mental issues were made worse by Brodeur?s intentions to divorce her. A psychologist who testified on her behalf said that Sliech-Brodeur doesn?t remember stabbing her husband. In February 2006, a jury rejected Sliech-Brodeur?s defense that she was not responsible for stabbing her husband because she was mentally ill. The then 61-year-old woman was sentenced to life in prison without parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).

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