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Jury finds Kalila Taylor guilty in 1996 murder

A handout image of Kalila Taylor who is

Photo credit: SCPD/Handout | A handout image of Kalila Taylor who is being tried in the 1996 killing of Curtisha Morning.

A Suffolk jury took three hours Monday to convict a Riverhead woman of hacking a high school homecoming queen to death 16 years ago.

It was the second time Kalila Taylor, now 35, has been convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Curtisha Morning, 17. Her first conviction was thrown out by an appellate court in 2004 because of faulty jury instructions.

Morning was stabbed at...

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