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Friday November 10, 2006
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The Supreme Judicial Court Thursday effectively put an end to convicted cult killer Carl Drew’s 25-year quest for freedom when its judges ruled his claims of incompetence on the part of his initial trial attorney did not merit a new trial.
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Saturday September 3, 2005
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BOSTON --A single justice of the state's highest court will hear the
appeal of a former pimp convicted in the ritualistic slaying of a Fall River prostitute.
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Tuesday April 26, 2005
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Tuesday February 8, 2005
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NEW BEDFORD -- The local attorney accused by several witnesses of, in essence, rigging the judicial system to secure a conviction against one of the most notorious convicted murderers in this area’s long history said he has given up on asking why, and is just relieved the ordeal is now over.
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Tuesday February 1, 2005
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FALL RIVER -- The sister of Karen Marsden is breathing a little easier after learning convicted "cult murderer"
Carl Drew will not be getting a new trial.
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Thursday January 13, 2005
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An attorney argues that Carl Drew deserves a retrial because witnesses who testified against Drew in 1981 have since recanted their testimonies and said the prosecutors in the case threatened them.
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Saturday December 11, 2004
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TAUNTON -- Final legal briefs regarding convicted cult murderer
Carl Drew’s evidentiary hearings are due on Superior Court Judge John Connor’s desk Monday morning.
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Thursday November 11, 2004
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TAUNTON -- After 11 days of testimony from more than 20 witnesses, the fate of convicted "cult murderer"
Carl Drew now rests with Superior Court Judge John Connor.
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Saturday November 6, 2004
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TAUNTON -- Convicted "cult murderer"
Carl Drew sat stoically as the man he contends unjustly secured his conviction for a brutal 1980 murder denied numerous allegations of prosecutorial misconduct leveled against him by four former trial witnesses.
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Thursday November 4, 2004
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TAUNTON -- Convicted cult killer
Carl Drew’s original trial attorney Wednesday denied ever actually witnessing any threats made by prosecutors against his potential witnesses, but said he strongly believed the trial witnesses were lying and that prosecutorial coercion was possible.
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Friday October 22, 2004
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TAUNTON -- A former prosecution witness whose testimony at
Carl Drew’s 1981 murder trial doomed the convicted "cult killer" to life in prison began telling a very different story Thursday of the events surrounding the mysterious slaying of Fall River prostitute Karen Marsden.
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Thursday October 21, 2004
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TAUNTON - Maureen "Sonny" Sparda leveled thunderous claims of prosecutorial misconduct against two prominent former Bristol County prosecutors yesterday in Superior Court.
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Wednesday October 20, 2004
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TAUNTON - With
Robin Marie Murphy sitting silently outside the courtroom, Assistant District Attorney Stephen Gagne spent more than three hours Tuesday cross-examining former Fall River Detective Paul Carey.
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TAUNTON -- The attorney for convicted "cult killer"
Carl Drew began to piece together his client’s case for a new trial by asking retired Fall River Detective Paul Carey a litany of questions pertaining to his initial investigation into the grisly 1980 slaying of Karen Marsden.
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Saturday May 29, 2004
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FALL RIVER -- Prosecutors attempting to keep convicted "cult murderer"
Carl Drew behind bars have submitted a list of at least 26 witnesses they plan to call during Drew’s evidentiary hearing. The hearing could pave the way to a new trial for the man who has spent the past 24 years in prison for a crime he insists he never committed.
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Thursday January 15, 1981
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A Fall River teenager who pleaded guilty to a murder that reportedly may have been related to the activities of a satanic cult was given a life sentence yesterday to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Framingham.
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