Legal Opinion
Billotti v. Dodrill
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided March 9, 1990No. 18534PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BROTHERTON, Justice:
On December 21, 1983, a Monongalia County Circuit Court jury found the defendant, Frank Billotti, guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the October 8, 1982, shooting deaths of his wife and two teenaged daughters. Billotti was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole 1 on January 17, 1984.
Evidence presented at trial indicated that the defendant’s wife, Carolyn, and daughters, Andrea, age 16, and Francie, age 14, were shot to death with a 12-gauge shotgun. The shootings occurred in the upstairs hallway of the family home sometime…
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