Connecticut: Steven Hayes Found Guilty of Capital Murder

Steven Hayes found guilty in Cheshire, Connecticut home invasion, murders of mom, daughters
Steven Hayes will never be a free man again. After eight days of gruesome Testimony, a Connecticut jury on Tuesday found the 47-year-old paroled burglar guilty of murdering a mother and her two daughters in a horrific, high-profile, 2007 Home Invasion. The jury, which began deliberating on Monday, must now decide whether Hayes should receive the death penalty or spend life behind bars. The slayings took place in the affluent New Haven suburb of Cheshire in the middle of the...

Jury finds Hayes guilty of murder in Connecticut home invasion
A Connecticut jury on Tuesday found Steven Hayes guilty of Murder in the slayings of a mother and her two daughters in a 2007 Home Invasion. Hayes was found guilty of 16 out of 17 counts, including nine counts of Murder and capital Murder, and four counts of Kidnapping. The lone not-guilty verdict came on a count of Arson. FULL STORY

Hayes Guilty Of Murder In Cheshire Home Invasion Trial
NEW YORK (CBS/1010 WINS/WCBS 880) - A jury that heard eight days of gruesome Testimony about a Connecticut family’s night of horror has convicted a paroled burglar of killing a mother and her two daughters. PHOTOS: Images Of Petit House Used As EvidenceDuring Trial Steven Hayes, 47,was found guilty Tuesday of Capital felony Murder in the July 2007 deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela. Hayes was found guilty on the...

Guilty verdict in horrific home invasion trial
A paroled burglar was convicted Tuesday of killing a mother and her two daughters in a 2007 Home Invasion in an affluent Connecticut town and faces the possibility of being sentenced to death. Steven Hayes, 47, was convicted of capital felony, Murder, Sexual Assault and other counts by a jury that heard eight days of gruesome Testimony about the July 2007 attacks on Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela. More U.S. news

Could home-invasion killer escape execution?
It was a Crime tailor-made for arguments in favor of the death penalty: A career criminal participates in a night of unfathomable cruelty and terror that leaves a woman and her two young daughters dead in the smoldering ruins of their suburban Home. But there's a chance Steven Hayes, convicted this week in the shocking 2007 Home Invasion, could slip past the execution chamber. His attorney, Tom Ullmann, managed to spare another Connecticut man the death penalty in 2004 after he was convicted of...

Malloy, Foley maneuver around home-invasion verdict
With a televised clash over Capital Punishment likely just a few hours away, Gubernatorial contenders Dan Malloy and Tom Foley maneuvered delicately but differently around Tuesday afternoon's conviction in the Cheshire Home Invasion slayings. Foley cited both Malloy's opposition to Capital Punishment and referred to the July 2007 murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters in reaffirming his support for the death penalty - and implying a Malloy win would spare the Cheshire suspects f...

Breaking: Connecticut Home Invasion, Rape, Murder, Trial: Guilty! - Update: Father Gives Statement
News has just come in that Steven Hayes, one of the pair of animals who committed the Crime, has been found guilty of every count but Arson, as there was technically no way to know exactly who lit it, after the duo had poured all the gas. Come back for more info, as it hasn’t even hit the wires yet…. Update 2, Father’s Statement: NEW HAVEN, Conn. The Connecticut doctor who survived the fatal Home Invasion that killed his wife and two daughters thanked jurors for...

Connecticut cop details defendant Steve Hayes' account of rape and murder of Petit family
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Caught fleeing the burning house and still reeking of Gasoline, craven monster Steven Hayes gave cops a pathetic excuse for the only act of violence he admits committing during the Home-invasion Murders of a doctor's wife and two daughters. He did Rape the mom, Hayes told cops -- but only because his co-defendant told him to, according to confession details revealed for the first time in trial Testimony yesterday in the attack that claimed the lives of Jennifer Hawke-Petit,...

Burglar guilty of murders
A BURGLAR could be facing the death penalty after being convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters in a 2007 Home Invasion in the Connecticut town of New Haven. Steven Hayes, 47, was convicted of Murder, Sexual Assault and other charges by a jury that had heard eight days of Testimony about the July 2007 attacks on Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11,. The sole survivor, Dr William Petit, appeared to hold back tears as the verdict was read. The...

Petit Family Murderer Found Guilty on 16 Out of 17 Crimes
The New York Times reports that Steven J. Hayes has been convicted of 16 of the 17 Crimes that were brought on by the killer who invaded a home in Connecticut and murdered a wife and two daughters. Only taking the jury less than one full day to deliberate, Hayes, who has a long history as a petty criminal, was convicted of the Capital Crimes that make him eligible for the death penalty. The same jury will now embark upon another trial to determine whether or not Hayes will get the death...

Conn. jury convicts man in deadly home invasion
Steven Hayes, 47, could be sentenced to death. His attorneys have admitted his involvement and will argue for a life sentence. Prosecutors said Hayes and another ex-con broke into the family's house in Cheshire in 2007, beat the girls' father with a Baseball Bat and forced their mother, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to withdraw money from a bank before she was sexually assaulted and killed. Eleven-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley were tied to their beds, with pillowcases over their heads,...

Foley: Dan seems angry. Malloy: He started it
One of them is going to be elected Governor, but neither Dan Malloy nor Tom Foley is likely to score a dinner invite from Tuesday's televised hour of caustic asides, withering ripostes and cross-talk. Foley made a fortune in business. Malloy presided for 14 years over Connecticut's only large city that has a triple-A bond rating. But each belittled the other as utterly unqualified and untruthful throughout a debate on the Bushnell stage in Hartford. And they get to do it again at 9 a.m. Wednes...

Hedge Fund Manager Found Guilty of Insider Trading
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Father and Son Found Guilty of Tax Evasion
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US jury convicts man over horror home invasion
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Jury begins deliberations in Conn. home invasion killings
N EW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut jury has completed its first day of deliberations in the trial of a man charged with killing a woman and her two daughters in a 2007 Home Invasion. The jury in New Haven Superior Court met for about two hours this afternoon after receiving instructions from the judge. The panel will return Tuesday to continue deliberations. Steven Hayes faces 17 charges including capital felony, Murder and Sexual Assault in connection with the deaths of Jennifer...

Jury Reaches Verdict in Connecticut Triple Murder Case
Petit family photo via New York Post After less than one day of deliberations, a jury found Steven J. Hayes, the former parolee accused of a brutal Home Invasion in Connecticut that left three dead, guilty on 16 of the 17 counts. Six of those crimes make Hayes eligible for the death penalty. The same jury will begin the penalty phase, which could last a month. Hayes and another parolee, Joshua Komisarjevsky, broke into the Petit family Home in Chesire, beat and restrained the father, Dr....

APNewsBreak: Connecticut will revamp prison library policy over books with graphic violence
Hartford, CONN. — The State Department of Correction is revising its library policy in the wake of an Associated Press investigation that found inmates had unrestricted access to works depicting graphic violence, a lawmaker said Wednesday. Sen. John Kissel, R-Enfield, said he met with Correction Commissioner Leo Arnone for an hour Friday after learning that books such as Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," a literary classic about a 1959 killing in Kansas, were among the Department's...

Morning Show Ledes
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Getting Off Death Row
In 1995, Shareef Cousin was sentenced to death at the age of 16 for a Crime he didn't commit. He served several years on death row in Louisiana's Angola Prison before his conviction was overturned. Now 28, Cousin is out of Prison and attending Morehouse College in Atlanta. He shared the story of his wrongful conviction in a Podcast he created as part of a competition that asked College Students for their perspectives on Capital Punishment. The Podcast competition was funded by the National...

Man Convicted in Deadly Conn. Home Invasion
A paroled burglar was convicted Tuesday of murdering a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in which the mother was strangled and the girls tied to their beds, one doused in Gasoline, before the house was set on fire. Steven Hayes, 47, could be sentenced to death. His attorneys have admitted his involvement and will argue for a life sentence. Prosecutors said Hayes and another ex-con broke into the family's house in Cheshire in 2007, beat the girls' father with a Baseball Bat and...

Connecticut doctor: Family was 'destroyed by evil'
For three weeks, Dr. William Petit went to a courtroom and re-lived the day he was attacked and his wife and daughters were killed in their Connecticut home. He calmly testified about being beaten awake from a nap and being taken to his basement tied up, not knowing what was happening to his family upstairs. He rarely left the New Haven courtroom, once excusing himself when a Medical Examiner testified. He listened stoically Tuesday after one of the accused was found guilty of capital...

Ex-Societe Generale trader must pay $6.7B for fraud
Paris — Former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel was convicted on all counts Tuesday in one of history's biggest trading Frauds, sentenced to three years in jail and ordered to pay the bank a mind-numbing 4.9 Billion Euros ($6.7 Billion) in damages. The ruling marked a huge victory for Societe Generale, one of France 's most blue-blooded banks, which has worked to clean up its image and put in place tougher risk controls since the Scandal broke in 2008. The 33-year-old former...

French trader must pay nearly $6.7B in damages
Former Societe Generale SA trader Jerome Kerviel was convicted on all counts Tuesday in one of history's biggest trading Frauds, sentenced to three years in jail and ordered to pay the bank a mind-numbing 4.9 Billion ($6.7 Billion) in damages. The ruling marked a huge victory for Societe Generale , one of France 's most blue-blooded banks, which has worked to clean up its image and put in place tougher risk controls since the Scandal broke in 2008. The 33-year-old former futures index...

Antigovernment Dad, Son Blame Each Other in Bank-Bombing Trial
The trial of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge begins its sixth day of Testimony in a Salem, Ore., courtroom today, where the father and son face nearly 20 counts ranging from aggravated Murder to assault stemming from a December 2008 bank bombing that killed two Police Officers and seriously injured two others. According to prosecutors, at least one of the two men who have turned on each other as the trial has unfolded began planning the bombing shortly after the election of Barack Obama,...