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East Boston man convicted of killing wife while kids sat on other side of door

But a Suffolk County jury only convicted Whitney Baskin, 47, of second-degree murder, which means he could one day get out of jail.

Prosecutors say Baskin asked his wife, Velveena, from whom he had separated, into her bedroom on the evening of April 16, 2006. He locked the door, turned up the stereo, beat her, then left the Condor Street apartment with the keys to her SUV. Her children eventually grew worried, opened the door and found their mother, face down on the bed, bleeding heavily and unconscious. She died a day later at Mass. General Hospital.

Baskin, meanwhile, was picked up about 12 hours later when police guarding the crime scene responded to a report of a drunk driver smashing an SUV into parked cars nearby.

Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction, which would have kept Baskin in jail for life without parole. He will, instead, be sentenced on Jan. 3.

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