Judge weighs new evidence in MacDonald murder case
Photo credit: AP | Jeffrey MacDonald at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, OR. A former Green Beret doctor from Patchogue, he was convicted of murdering his wife and two daughters in 1970. (June 12, 1997)
A new round of court hearings over whether former Patchogue resident Jeffrey MacDonald should be granted a new trial has ended, and a ruling on the case of the Green Beret Army doctor serving life in prison for killing his wife and two children in 1970 is months away.
Testimony concluded Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, N.C., and Judge James Fox gave attorneys for MacDonald and...