| 词条 | Andrew Puopolo |
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Andrew P. Puopolo was a Harvard University football player and the victim in one of the most highly publicized Boston murder cases of the 1970s. Early LifePuopolo grew up in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston and graduated from the prestigious Boston Latin School before enrolling at Harvard. A senior and the starting cornerback for the Crimson during the 1976 season, he was scheduled to graduate the following spring with a degree in biology. He was planning to attend medical school.[1] MurderOn Tuesday November 15, 1976, Puopolo and a group of his Harvard Crimson teammates spent the evening out. During the early morning hours of November 16, Puopolo's teammate Charlie Kaye was approached by a prostitute while he was sitting in a van. Reaching into the van, the prostitute distracted Kaye by fondling him and then stole his wallet. As the prostitute ran away, Puopolo pursued her. Three men came to the aid of the woman, and in the ensuing altercation one of the men stabbed Puopolo.[2] Deprived of oxygen as a result of his injuries, Puopolo suffered extensive brain damage. He remained in a coma for 31 days before suffering a fatal heart attack on December 17, 1976. He died while still attached to the respirator that had been keeping him alive. TrialThe men convicted of Puopolo's murder were all black and appealed their first degree murder convictions in part on a claim that the prosecution used peremptory challenges led to exclude blacks from the jury. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court remanded the case for new trial after finding that eleven of twelve deliberating jurors were white.[3] All men were found not guilty on their retrial, despite overwhelming evidence suggesting their guilt, according to contemporary commentary.[4] One man found innocent in the aforementioned trial, has sued the now defunct Boston Underground News for libel, after having been denied employment at an unnamed local convenience store, supposedly due to false allegations published by the defendant. The case was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.[5] AftermathScholarships at both Boston Latin[6] and Harvard[7] as well as an athletic field[8] in Boston's North End are all named in memory of Andrew Puopolo. References1. ^ {{dead link|date=October 2013}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Puopolo, Andrew}}2. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060217234210/http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=507885 |date=February 17, 2006 }} 3. ^Commonwealth v. Soares, 377 Mass. 461 (1978) 4. ^ {{dead link|date=October 2014}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bls.org/doc_content/PrizeSchol.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-11-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080414065452/http://www.bls.org/doc_content/PrizeSchol.pdf |archivedate=2008-04-14 |df= }} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bls.org/doc_content/PrizeSchol.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-11-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080414065452/http://www.bls.org/doc_content/PrizeSchol.pdf |archivedate=2008-04-14 |df= }} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bostonyouthzone.com/resources/collegeguide/university/harvard.html |title=City of Boston |publisher=Boston Youth Zone |date= |accessdate=2013-10-15}} 8. ^{{cite book|last1=Bahne|first1=Charles|title=Chronicles of Old Boston: Exploring New England's Historic Capital|date=2012|isbn=9780984633401|page=201|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg9MBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA201}} 8 : 1976 deaths|Sportspeople from Boston|American football cornerbacks|American people of Italian descent|Harvard Crimson football players|Murdered American sportspeople|Deaths by stabbing in the United States|People murdered in Massachusetts |
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