Today's lesson: If a man taunts you mercilessly about your love life, just walk away

By adamg - 9/16/08 - 11:23 am

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Ivan Sosa of Dorchester guilty of voluntary manslaughter for the stabbing death of a co-worker at Turner Fisheries on Sept. 16, 2006, the Suffolk County DA's office reports.

Prosecutors had charged Sosa stabbed Carlos Borrero, Jr., of Chelsea to death because Borrerro made fun of his attempts to date a waitress there and was talking trash about him behind his back. Prosecutors had sought a more serious second-degree murder charge against him. He's to be sentenced this afternoon.

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Sounds fishy to me.

By Anonymous - 9/16/08 - 11:29 am

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Sounds fishy to me.

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He got in a roe

By SwirlyGrrl - 9/16/08 - 11:53 am

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and now he's scrod.

Will he escape by scaling a wall? Or will he just go back to school.

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sentencing

By adonovan - 9/16/08 - 12:05 pm

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I just hope that they don't play the race cod in sentencing

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malice in his heart

By Anonymous - 9/16/08 - 1:01 pm

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Prosecutors said the 39-year-old Sosa grabbed a knife and stabbed Borrero repeatedly in the kitchen in front of other workers who tried to stop him.

The story here is how the jury decided on voluntary manslaughter instead of murder two. Sosa had malice in his heart.

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8-12 at MCI Cedar Junction

By adamg - 9/16/08 - 2:07 pm

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Suffolk Superior Court Judge Linda Giles handed down the sentence; prosecutors had asked for 15-20 (and had he been convicted of second-degree murder, he would have gotten life, but with a chance at parole).

The victim's family members addressed the court before sentencing, including the mother of his son:

He tells me, 'Mom I miss dad so much.' Sometimes days will pass and he will speak to me about his dad as if he were alive.

"But the worst part is when he asks me, 'What happened? Who harmed him? How did it happen?'

"How do you tell a boy that the person who ate with us at our table, who spent time with our family, who when he needed a helping hand, helped him; who in tough times was always able to help him. How?"