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May 7, 2008

Testimony to resume in toddler T.J. Wright's murder

Testimony is set to resume today in the trial of a 24-year-old woman who faces murder charges after the beating death of her 3-year-old nephew, who had been left in her care.

Katherine Bunnell did slap, drag and pull Thomas "T.J." Wright around the Woonsocket apartment she and her boyfriend shared, her lawyer Gerard H. Donley said in court yesterday.

But, he argued in opening statements, the fatal blows were given by Bunnell's boyfriend, Gilbert Delestre, who also faces murder charges.

Wright was beaten so brutally 3½ years ago that he was declared brain dead and taken off life support.

Lt. Normand Galipeau, an officer who went to the couple's apartment the night of Wright's final beating, is scheduled to return to the witness stand today to testify in Superior Court, Providence.

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 7:26 AM | Permalink

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