A bar fight broke out early in the morning of August 4, 1996, in a Boston nightclub called "Polly-Esta's." It did not last long, but when it ended Edmund Kelleher's ear was nearly severed as the result of a single blow to his head with a beer bottle (which broke on impact). Kelleher did not see who hit him. Police attention soon focused on the defendant.
On June 16, 1997, a Superior Court jury convicted...
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