Legal Opinion
Healy v. Spencer
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 27, 2006No. 06-1269PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Wayne Healy was tried in 1981 for the murder of Richard Chalue, who had been found stabbed to death in his home. At trial, the prosecution suggested, in response to certain defense arguments, that Healy killed Chalue during a homosexual encounter gone awry. Healy was convicted and is now serving a life sentence.
More than fifteen years later, in response to a discovery request connected to Healy’s third motion for a new trial, prosecutors for the first time turned over to Healy a pathologist’s report from the postmortem examination of Chalue. (Healy had had…
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