HARTFORD — A lawyer for convicted home invasion killer Joshua Komisarjevsky has told the Connecticut Supreme Court that his client did not get a fair trial because a judge refused to move the proceedings out of New Haven.
Attorney John Holdridge argued Komisarjevsky’s appeal before the high court Thursday. A ruling on whether a new trial is warranted is expected in several months.
Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes are serving life prison sentences for the 2007 killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, in Cheshire, in New Haven County. Hayes dropped his appeal.
The Hartford Courant reports Holdridge told justices that New Haven-area residents were too upset by the killings to pick jurors and hold a trial there.
Prosecutor Marjorie Allen Dauster said the defense never proved their unfair trial claims.
