Crime & Safety
Joshua Komisarjevsky of Cheshire Guilty of all 17 Counts Against Him in Petit Triple Slaying
The jury took about eight hours to find Komisarjevsky guilty of all 17 charges against him. He now faces the death penalty.
Joshua Komisarjevsky was found guilty of all 17 counts against him this afternoon after jurors spent about eight hours deliberating over two days.
He faces the death penaty for the slayings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Michaela and Hayley, in 2007.
His co-defendant in the case, Steven Hayes, received the death penalty last year in one of the country's worst home invasion crimes in history.
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The penalty phase of the trail begins on Oct. 24.
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