Cambridge man convicted again in double slaying

WOBURN, Mass.—A Cambridge man has been convicted for the second time for killing two relatives and wounding another during a family dispute.

John Hinds was convicted in 2000 of killing his half-brother and sister-in-law, and attempting to kill his sister during a fight over his elderly mother's house in Cambridge in 1998.

But last year, the state Supreme Judicial Court overturned his convictions, ruling that the trial judge gave faulty instructions to jurors on how they should evaluate testimony from a defense psychiatrist who claimed Hinds was mentally impaired at the time of the shootings.

After a retrial in Middlesex Superior Court that began last week, the 66-year-old Hinds was convicted a second time. A jury returned guilty verdicts Wednesday and Thursday.