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Harold Stonier is acting as his own lawyer, but US District Judge Joseph L. Tauro appointed Cambridge lawyer Sarah Hunt to offer him guidance during the trial.
Harold Stonier is acting as his own lawyer, but US District Judge Joseph L. Tauro appointed Cambridge lawyer Sarah Hunt to offer him guidance during the trial. (Globe Illustration/ Constance Flavell Pratt) Globe Illustration/ Constance Flavell Pratt

Husband says he tried to back off plot

Asserts hit man pushed murder plan

By Shelley Murphy
Globe Staff / March 8, 2005

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Harold Stonier doesn't dispute that he hatched a plan two years ago for a hit man to kill his wife, because he thought she was driving him "over the edge." But he argued on the first day of his criminal trial yesterday that he never intended to go through with it. (Full article: 844 words)

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