John Connolly, the former Boston FBI agent who helped gangster James “Whitey” Bulger and was convicted of murder, likely won’t be leaving prison anytime soon.
The Miami Herald reports that the Third District Court of Appeals decided this week to hear the prosecution’s case for keeping Connoly behind bars following the 1982 murder of a gambling executive.
That’s a dramatic turnabout after the Miami appellate court reversed the murder conviction on a legal technicality over the summer.
Connolly is to remain imprisoned in northern Florida while the court reconsiders the decision to reverse the conviction.
“We’re disappointed,” James McDonald, one of Connolly’s attorneys, said of this week’s ruling.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said she was “pleased” with the court’s decision.
“There are important issues here which are in conflict and this will allow those conflicts to be resolved,” she said.
