Friends and former co-workers say the issues generated by the brutal murder of Peter Porco create just the type of legal puzzle that would have fascinated the career appellate clerk. As the trial of Porco's son begins, attorneys have filed an avalanche of motions on Miranda warnings, excited utterances versus dying declarations, prior bad acts -- even whether an alleged nod by Porco's wife at the scene of the crime is "testimonial" hearsay under the U.S. Supreme Court's Crawford decision.
This is a pretty unusual and interesting case. Details here from the New York Law Journal via Law.com.