03-22-2012, 02:47 PM
I AM UTTERLY SPEECHLESS!
In a stunning decision, the jury in the Mattapan massacre trial ruled today Edward Washington is not guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and all other counts against him in connection with the grisly quadruple slayings.
There was chaos in the court as the verdicts were read and victims’ loved ones shouted out, with some being dragged out of court by court officers.
The co-defendant in the case, Dwayne Moore, was found not guilty of trafficking cocaine, but the jury could not reach a verdict on the nine other counts against him — including murder — prompting the judge to declare a mistrial.
Washington, 32, briefly looked toward his mother before the official reading by the clerk that counts will be discharged against him. Now he is is a free man.
Relatives of the four killed that day on Sept. 28, 2010, have poured out of the court screaming and collapsing. One woman had to be carried out of the court.
In a stunning decision, the jury in the Mattapan massacre trial ruled today Edward Washington is not guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and all other counts against him in connection with the grisly quadruple slayings.
There was chaos in the court as the verdicts were read and victims’ loved ones shouted out, with some being dragged out of court by court officers.
The co-defendant in the case, Dwayne Moore, was found not guilty of trafficking cocaine, but the jury could not reach a verdict on the nine other counts against him — including murder — prompting the judge to declare a mistrial.
Washington, 32, briefly looked toward his mother before the official reading by the clerk that counts will be discharged against him. Now he is is a free man.
Relatives of the four killed that day on Sept. 28, 2010, have poured out of the court screaming and collapsing. One woman had to be carried out of the court.