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Connolly case tough to digest, juror says Even `more dramatic' than TV's `Sopranos'

Article from: The Boston Globe Article date: November 8, 2008 Author: Jonathan Saltzman; Shelley Murphy

It took a Florida jury 13 hours to convict disgraced FBI agent John J. Connolly Jr. of setting up the 1982 slaying of a gambling executive, but one juror said yesterday that she and others quickly agreed on one thing: Never had they heard such a disheartening, real- life tale of corrupt law enforcement and thoughtless violence.

"A lot of us were of the feeling that what we were listening to was much more dramatic than anything we saw on `The Sopranos,"' said Jane G. Bleakley, a 65-year-old marketing employee for a healthcare company in the ...

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