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On Friday, the State Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Tajendra Patel, the mastermind of the Founder's Brook motel murder, sez the ProJo. Patel joins his convicted triggerman, Roger Graham, in seeing their appeals run out.

Patel's appeal to the state's highest court argued the judge erred when she admitted an in-court identification of defendant "because the identification procedure was unnecessarily suggestive and because the identification lacked independent reliability," the court's opinion says. The appeal also argued that the judge also erred in admitting a 911 call that was "irrelevant and unfairly prejudicial."

Among its conclusions, the Supreme Court found "no clear error" in allowing the 911 call recording to be part of the trial.
— via ProJo 7 to 7 news blog