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Komisarjevsky Witness Lists May Be Released Today
Seventh juror for the Cheshire home invasion trial is a woman from Hamden.
Who is on the witness list for the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second Cheshire home invasion defendant?
The Hartford Courant and other news outlets might soon know as Superior Court Judge Jon C. Blue has scheduled today for the release of the witness lists.
Blue granted a motion by The Courant for release of the lists on March 23, but stayed the order to give defense lawyers a chance to have it reviewed by another court.
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Last week, the Children’s Law Center of Connecticut asked to have the name of Komisarjevsky’s 9-year-old daughter removed from the witness lists, which led the judge to extend the stay again to April 20.
Komisarjevsky faces the death penalty for the 2007 triple homicide in Cheshire in which a mother and her two daughters were killed.
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His co-defendant, Steven Hayes, was convicted of felony capital murder and other charges in a separate trial last year and sentenced to death row.
According to testimony in the Hayes trial, Komisarjevsky put his daughter, then age five, to bed and read her a story before police say he went on later that night to commit the Cheshire home invasion crime.
His defense lawyers will not say if they would call his daughter as a witness during the penalty phase of the trial.
Jury selection will also continue today. On Tuesday, defense attorneys and prosecutors picked a seventh juror, reportedly a woman from Hamden. She is the fifth woman on the jury.
Blue said the lawyers must pick 12 jurors, six alternates and three backup alternates for the jury. The trial is scheduled to start on Sept. 19 and may last three months.
