Killer of graduating MCPS teens appeals conviction in Md. high court

 

The attorney for a convicted killer of two Montgomery County teenagers on the eve of their high school graduation urged Maryland’s top court Thursday to overturn the first-degree murder conviction, saying the state’s failure to disclose the investigators’ interview with a witness’s parents denied the convict a fair trial.

Nancy S. Forster pressed the appeal of Jose Canales-Yanez, who was found guilty after a bench trial in the shooting deaths of Northwest High School seniors Artem Zibarov, 18, and Shadi Najjar, 17, as they sat in a car in a Montgomery Village cul-de-sac on the night of June 5, 2017...

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