John Odgren, 16, sat during his pretrial hearing last Friday in the Superior Court in Woburn. Odgren is accused of stabbing a classmate to death in a 2007 attack. Judge S. Jane Haggerty said Odgren is a smart teenager who knew the jailhouse calls to his parents were being monitored and had no reason to doubt prosecutors would not try to gain access to the conversations.
(Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Associated Press)
Teen’s taped calls home from jail can be used in murder trial
John Odgren, 16, sat during his pretrial hearing last Friday in the Superior Court in Woburn. Odgren is accused of stabbing a classmate to death in a 2007 attack. Judge S. Jane Haggerty said Odgren is a smart teenager who knew the jailhouse calls to his parents were being monitored and had no reason to doubt prosecutors would not try to gain access to the conversations.
(Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Associated Press)
A Middlesex Superior Court judge has decided that prosecutors can use tape-recorded conversations in the murder trial of a teenager accused of fatally stabbing a Lincoln-Sudbury High School student in 2007. (Full article: 387 words)
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