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The defense rips into key testimony at murder trial

Defense attorney John Amabile showed Kimani Washington a clip of ammunition. Defense attorney John Amabile showed Kimani Washington a clip of ammunition. (Suzanne Kreiter / Globe Staff)
By Maria Cramer and Martin Finucane
Globe Staff / February 23, 2012
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A career criminal who is a key prosecution witness in a 2010 quadruple slaying in Mattapan admitted today under cross-examination that his lifestyle called on him to lie to police and to prosecutors. Kimani Washington, 36, was testifying in the trial of two other men charged with the slayings, his cousin, Edward Washington, and Dwayne Moore, 34.

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