New Hampshire
Supreme Court upholds infant beating conviction
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The New Hampshire Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and 15-to-30-year sentence of a Windham man found guilty in 2008 of beating his 6-month-old son and breaking some of his bones.
In his appeal, a lawyer for Gurrie Fandozzi said a pediatrician's testimony on bone fractures, marital conflicts between Fandozzi and his wife and evidence the state had brought abuse and neglect petitions against the couple should have been excluded from trial.
Fandozzi's lawyer also argued there was insufficient evidence to convict Fandozzi and that testimony from a family member about how he treated the child was misleading. The lawyer also alleged misconduct by the jury in reaching its verdict. The trial judge found no evidence of that and on Wednesday the high court agreed.
Tennessee
Maryville man charged after dead roosters found
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Blount County authorities have charged a Maryville man with aggravated animal cruelty after finding dead roosters in his yard.
The Daily Times quotes a statement from Marion County Sheriff's spokeswoman Marian O'Briant who said a landlord called a deputy to help him evict a tenant on Saturday and the officer found 17 dead roosters and more than a dozen birds which were alive.
The department arrested 29-year-old Christopher Lee Arden on Sunday on a warrant taken out by the local chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The newspaper reported Arden was free on $1,500 bond.
The SPCA is caring for the live roosters.
Massachusetts
Newburyport man convicted of 20-year-old rape
SALEM, Mass. (AP) -- A Newburyport man has been found guilty of raping a 14-year-old girl nearly two decades ago.
Robin Abrahams was convicted by a jury in Salem Superior Court on Tuesday of rape of a child with force and burglary with assault of an occupant.
The 1991 case was brought to trial because new DNA technology was used to analyze evidence found on the bedsheets at the scene and link it to the now 46-year-old Abrahams. He is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday.
Abrahams' defense lawyer said in court that there were inconsistencies in the victim's testimony, and said she was having a consensual sexual relationship with an older man that she was trying to hide from her parents.
The Newburyport Daily News reports that the victim, now in her 30s, wept in court.
Published: Thu, Mar 11, 2010
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