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Article: MAN: I KILLED MY HUNTING BUDDY; THOMAS CALESCIBETTA JR. OF PORT BYRON TELLS HOW HE FIRED THE FATAL SHOTGUN BLAST.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 17, 2004
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Byline: John Stith Staff writer
A Port Byron man admitted Tuesday in Cayuga County Court to killing a hunting companion last December.
Thomas Calescibetta Jr., 40, of 8386 West Loop Road, pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide, a felony punishable by up to four years in state prison.
"I pulled the trigger and saw my friend die," he told the court during his plea.
The Port Byron man was the key witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of Thomas Bianco, accused in the 1981 killing of Julie Monson, of Auburn. Bianco was convicted, but the conviction was overturned in 1993, and the case remains open.
Calescibetta ...