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March 31, 2008

New trial denied in case of murdered Cape social worker

BOSTON — The state’s highest court has denied a new trial for a man convicted of killing a Cape Cod social worker who sided with his estranged wife in a custody dispute.

Paul Dubois is serving a life sentence in the 1996 killing in Provincetown of Linda Silva, a social worker with the state Department of Social Services who recommended that Dubois’ wife get custody of their two children during the couple’s divorce. Silva was shot once in the back of the head.

Dubois claimed the judge at his trial should have suppressed statements he made to police in 2003 when he claimed he had asked for a lawyer, but didn’t get one.

In a ruling today, the Supreme Judicial Court found that Dubois did not respond when police asked him if he wanted a lawyer.

-- The Associated Press

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 12:39 PM | Permalink

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