LBN: Pittsburgh Cop-killer Found Guilty on All Counts

[femmocrat]

Poplawski Found Guilty On 3 Counts Of 1st-Degree Murder

POPLAWSKI TRIAL


Posted: 10:02 am EDT June 25, 2011Updated: 9:17 pm EDT June 25, 2011
PITTSBURGH -- Richard Poplawski has been found guilty on all 28 counts he faced, including three counts of first-degree murder.

Poplawski, 24, killed officers Paul Sciullo II, Stephen Mayhle and Eric Kelly on April 4, 2009. The three officers responded to Poplawski’s home after his mother, Margaret, reported that an argument between the two had escalated.

On Saturday night, about 50 Pittsburgh police officers lined the hallway outside Allegheny County Judge Jeffrey Manning's courtroom and burst into applause when Deputy District Attorney Mark Tranquilli emerged.

"That was a very touching thing for them to do. We're dealing with not just three families; we're really dealing with four. I think the fourth family is really the entire law enforcement community of Allegheny County," Tranquilli told Channel 11.

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[blue neen]

1. It had to be extremely difficult for those families to listen to the testimony this week.

I don't know how they were able to sit through it...heartbreaking.

[femmocrat]

2. Update: Poplawski to face Death Penalty

Jury Reaches Sentencing Verdict For Poplawski


Posted: 10:49 am EDT June 28, 2011Updated: 6:24 pm EDT June 28, 2011

PITTSBURGH -- The same jury who convicted Richard Poplawski, 24, of first-degree murder in the slayings of three Pittsburgh police officers has begun deliberating whether he deserves the death penalty or life in prison.

All 12 jurors must agree to impose a death sentence, otherwise the sentence is life with no chance of parole.

LINK: http://www.wpxi.com/print/28381388/detail.html