Defense Attorney Begins Appeal Process on Quoizel Wilson First Degree Murder Conviction

CCB MEDIA PHOTO Quoizel Wilson is loaded into the sheriff's van after being convicted of first degree murder in the 2010 shooting death of Trudie Hall of Nantucket. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole at MCI Cedar Junction in Walpole.

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Quoizel Wilson is loaded into the sheriff’s van after being convicted of first degree murder in the 2010 shooting death of Trudie Hall of Nantucket. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole at MCI Cedar Junction in Walpole.

HYANNIS – The attorney for Quoizel Wilson filed a notice of appeal this week, a pro forma document that puts the court on notice, pursuant to the rules, that the first degree murder conviction last week will be appealed.

A Barnstable Superior Court jury convicted Wilson last Friday of the 2010 shooting death of Trudy Hall of Nantucket. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Attorney Robert Galibois said the actual appeal will likely be filed by the end of this year.

The basis of his appeal, Galibois said, will be the police use of the cell phone records for Wilson, as well as records for Hall, and for Wilson’s then-wife Donna Wilson and Mawande Senene, who was a friend of Quoizel Wilson’s at the time of the murder.

Police subpoenaed the records. But new case law out of the Supreme Judicial Court last year specifies that police who want cell phone records need a search warrant or a subpoena accompanied by an affidavit.

The Supreme Judicial Court decision applied to all open and pending cases at the time, and, Galibois said, the Quoizel Wilson case was classified as “open and pending” at the time of the new court ruling.

The subpoenas could not be applied for after the fact, so, Galibois said, that meant the cell phone data could not be used by the prosecution. Before the case began, Galibois filed an unsuccessful motion seeking to block use of the records as evidence.

Instead, the prosecution used the records as a major part of its case against Wilson.

“It appeared the phone records were most of the government’s case,” Galibois said.

By LAURA M. RECKFORD, CapeCod.com News Editor



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