Court Report

Komisarjevsky Seeks New Trial

Lawyers for convicted murderer Joshua Komisarjevsky are asking a judge for a new trial in the home invasion killings of a woman and her two daughters, saying the case should have been moved out of New Haven County because there was no way he could get a fair trial there. Komisarjevsky filed a motion for a new trial Wednesday in New Haven Superior Court. A jury sentenced him to death last month for the 2007 killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley, at their home in Cheshire, about 20 miles north of New Haven. He joined co-defendant Steven Hayes on Connecticut's death row. Read more...
Posted by Webmaster at January 13, 2012 12:18 AM