Four agreed statements of fact were read into evidence Thursday; trial to resume with closing arguments Monday, with jury deliberation expected to start Tuesday
Witness testimony came to a close today, March 23, in the second-degree murder trial of Robert Steven Wright.
In what has been described by witnesses as the largest police investigation in Sudbury’s history, the trial began with jury selection more than a month ago, on Feb. 21, with testimony beginning Feb. 23. That was the day the jury learned Wright would testify in his own defense. While the jury normally sits to the right of the judge, today they were split between seats on both sides of the courtroom. Many wore masks.
The jury has also heard evidence regarding Fetterly from a statement by Pierre Rivers, introduced into evidence by defense co-counsel Michael Lacy, on Feb. 28. Rivers, now deceased, told police in 1998 that he knew Fetterly and was his community mental health worker. Hutchinson relied on his memory, which he admitted was not perfect, as well as three statements he made to police, on Jan. 27, 1998; Feb. 12, 1998, and; June 15, 1999.
He said the officer conducting the array told him to consider “that people can change their appearance and to take my time and be patient. So when I decided that that was the person I felt I saw, I remember the officer showing another officer the lineup … and saying ‘he picked him, that's the guy, he picked him’,” said Hutchinson.
The first agreed statement of facts read into evidence March 23 was an attestation from Donna-Lynn Sévigny, the former spouse of Fetterly, with whom he shares a daughter. She attested that he called collect, saying he had come into some money and wanted to take Sévigny and their daughter “out for coffee.”
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