Roxbury man convicted a second time of wife's murder

Lao was convicted on the same charge in 2002, but the case was overturned on appeal after a US Supreme Court case set precedent that would have kept certain witness testimony from the jury at that trial, Conley said.

Judge Charles Spurlock will sentence Lao Thursday, Conley said.

On May 2, 2000, two days after Alicia Lao filed for divorce from Agapito Lao and one day after her boyfriend had moved into her Bellingham Street apartment, Agapito Lao entered her apartment sometime between 8:50 and 10:15 a.m. and beat and strangled her, Conley said.