The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Edward Corliss of Roslindale, who has a criminal record dating to 1962, got a fair trial for the 2009 shooting death of Surendra Dangol and that it saw no reason to overturn his first-degree murder conviction.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury wasted little time finding Edward Corliss guilty of first-degree murder today for killing Tedeschi clerk Surendra Dangol, who gave Corliss everything he asked for during a December, 2009 holdup, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Corliss will be formally sentenced on Thursday, but first-degree murder convictions carry a mandatory life term without possibility of parole. Corliss was on parole for murdering a Salisbury store clerk in 1971 when he gunned down Dangol, a Nepali immigrant working to bring his family to the United States. It was Corliss's parole officer who led police to him, after he noticed Corliss was driving a car with an Obama bumper sticker, which he found odd for a criminal from Somerville.
Corliss, whose criminal record dates to 1962, originally faced another trial on charges he tried to hire a fellow inmate to murder his wife, who drove him away from the Tedeschi as Dangol lay dying inside the store. Prosecutors, however, dropped that case.
The Herald reports an Obama sticker on the car of Edward Corliss, charged with murdering a Jamaica Plain convenience-store clerk while on parole for murdering another clerk, helped police link him to the crime: Corliss's parole officer turned him in after noticing an Obama sticker on his car - just like the Obama sticker on the vehicle police had said they were looking for:
Edward Corliss, the Roslindale man who's already spent time in jail for killing one store clerk, could go on trial in a few days on charges he killed another in December, 2009.
Corliss's trial for the murder of Surendra Dangol will begin once a jury is selected in Suffolk Superior Court, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Corliss charged with trying to rub out getaway
driver - his wife.Edward Corliss, the Roslindale man who's already spent time in jail for killing one store clerk and now faces trial for killing another, tried to get another inmate to kill his wife and two other people he suspected of ratting him out, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
Proseuctors also charged Corliss sought the inmate's help in busting him out of custody by gunning down guards taking him to court or to a doctor's appointment at Shattuck Hospital - for which Corliss allegedly promised to pay him $2 million from the proceeds of an armored-car holdup he was planning for after his escape.
RMV photoEdward Corliss, who is charged with murdering a Nepali immigrant working at a Jamaica Plain Tedeschi store, was indicted today on four counts of witness intimidation.
Corliss, locked up at MCI Cedar Junction while awaiting trial for Surendra Dangol's murder in December, 2009, "sought to have a soon-to-be-released inmate murder three individuals he believed had provided authorities with evidence against him," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said in a statement.
The DA's office says Corliss promised that inmate with proceeds from an armored-car heist he was also planning in exchange for murdering the three witnesses and for keeping quiet.
Each of the new counts carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Corliss is scheduled for arraignment tomorrow afternoon in Suffolk Superior Court on the intimidation charges.
Corliss, 64, of Roslindale, has already served one sentence for second-degree murder for the 1972 death of a store cleark in Salisbury.
Innocent, etc.
The Globe reports that Edward Corliss tried to get rid of the gun he allegedly used to murder JP convenience store clerk Surendra Dangol by tossing it into the ocean at Revere Beach. Police waited for low tide one day and retrieved the weapon they say is tied to the Roslindale loser, who has a record dating to 1962, including a conviction for killing another store clerk.
Edward Corliss of Roslindale was ordered held without bail today on charges he gunned down a convenience-store clerk who gave him everything he wanted - which turned out to be $746 in cash, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
RMV photoPolice today charged a Roslindale resident on parole for gunning down a convenience-store owner 38 years ago with the shooting death of Surendra Dangol, a clerk at the Tedeschi store on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain.
Edward P. Corliss, 63, was charged with murder and other crimes and is scheduled for arraignment on Tuesday in West Roxbury District Court. In 1972, Corliss was convicted of second-degree murder for the shooting death of the owner of a small store in Salisbury the year before - while on the lam from a Rhode Island prison work camp to which he'd been sent on a breaking-and-entering conviction.
WBUR reports that U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano showed the U.S. embassy in Katmandu the stupidity of its ways and that it will issue a visa for Surendra Dangol's nine-year-old daughter after all.
Dangol, here legally, had been saving money to bring his wife and daughter here when he was murdered at a Tedeschi shop on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain Dec. 26. The embassy had initially refused to issue the girl a visa because it was afraid she and her mother would come here and then not leave.
Provide "information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the shooting death of 39-year-old Surendra Dangol" and the reward is yours, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
Tipsters acting on the reward should call Boston Police homicide detectives at 617-343-4470; those who wish to remain anonymous may call the CrimeStoppers tip line at 1-800-494-TIPS.
Boston Police have released surveillance video of the holdup of the Jamaica Plain Tedeschi, showing clerk Surendra Dangol was completely cooperating with the holdup man - who then shot him to death (that part was redacted):
Boston Police today identified the Tedeschi clerk shot to death on Saturday as Surendra Dangol, 39, of Somerville. The Himalayan Times reports Dangol was a native of Katmandu, Nepal and was saving up to bring his wife and nine-year-old daughter here.
Police also released photos of the car the gunman apparently got away in and of the bewigged murderer:
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