Legal Opinion
Karl G. Eisen v. Philip J. Picard
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 14, 1971No. 71-1217PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McENTEE, Circuit Judge.
Defendant appeals from the denial, without a hearing, of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He was convicted in the Superior Court of Massachusetts of murder in the first degree by extreme atrocity and cruelty. 1 The jury recommended that the death penalty not be imposed. The Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the conviction. Commonwealth v. Eisen, Mass., 267 N.E.2d 229 (1971).
At trial the evidence showed that Margot Eisen, defendant’s wife, died of a single axe blow to the head and that Gabrielle, his daughter, died of multiple blows to the head. Their bodies were…
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3Cited by30 opinions
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