Crime & Safety
Joshua Komisarjevsky Guilty of all 17 Counts Against Him in Petit Triple Slaying
The jury took about eight hours to find Komisarjevsky guilty. He now faces the death penalty.
Joshua Komisarjevsky of Cheshire 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 penalty for the slayings in Cheshire 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 for one of the country's worst home invasion crimes in history.
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The penalty phase of the trial begins on Oct. 24.
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