A father and son serving life in prison for the 1995 murders of
four men inside a 99 Restaurant in Charlestown are attempting to get
a new trial by reviving their argument that the victims had a
history of violence and were the aggressors in the encounter that
led to their deaths.
Attorneys for Anthony Clemente Sr. and his son Damian appeared
before a five-judge panel of the state's highest court yesterday,
arguing that the Adjutant Rule, named after Rhonda Adjutant, a
defendant in a precedent-setting 1999 case, should apply to their
clients.
The Adjutant Rule was used with success recently in the case of
Alexander Pring-Wilson, a Harvard University graduate student whose
first-degree murder ...