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Supreme Court declines to hear Cheshire home invasion killing appeal

Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes are serving life prison sentences for the killings of a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion.

Credit: AP

FILE - This July 2007 file photo provided by police, made available Sept. 21, 2011, by the Connecticut Judicial Branch as evidence and presented in the Joshua Komisarjevsky trial in New Haven, Conn., shows a fire-damaged portion of the William Petit home in Cheshire, Conn. The Connecticut Supreme Court issued a 7-0 decision Monday, April 12, 2021, upholding the convictions against Joshua Komisarjevsky. Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes are serving life prison sentences for the killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley, in their Cheshire home. (Connecticut Judicial Branch via AP, File)

HARTFORD, Conn. — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of a Connecticut man convicted in the killings of a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 home invasion.

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The court decided not to take up the case of Joshua Komisarjevsky on Monday.

Komisarjevsky asked the court to hear his appeal of a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that upheld his convictions for murder, sexual assault and other crimes.

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His lawyers had said he was denied a fair trial because the state refused to move his trial out of New Haven.

Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes are serving life prison sentences for the killings.

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