Wakefield, MA Criminal Defense Attorney

According to the Boston Globe, three men emerged from the darkness on a New Jersey side street Tuesday night, he said, screaming “terrorists’’ at the young couple out for a stroll with their toddler. They killed his young wife with a bullet in the heart and shot him, too, once in the shoulder and once in the ankle. But yesterday Kashif Parvaiz admitted to police that his story was a lie. Police investigating the execution-style killing of Nazish Noorani, 27, in the small town of Boonton, N.J., 30 miles from Manhattan, said yesterday that he was carrying out a plot to kill his wife, with the help of a Billerica woman, in a crime eerily reminiscent of the infamous Charles Stuart murder case that rocked Boston more than two decades ago. Parvaiz, who had been living in East Boston, was charged yesterday with the murder of his wife in a conspiracy with Antionette Stephen, 26, of Billerica. “Within hours of this crime, it was obvious to investigators that this was sadly the alleged handiwork of the victim’s husband who allegedly did the unthinkable and plotted to murder his wife, after a religious celebration,’’ said Robert A. Bianchi, the prosecutor from Morris County, in a statement. “That this matter was so well thought out, planned, plotted, and orchestrated is chilling to say the least,’’ he said.The case has similarities to the case of Stuart, who shot his pregnant wife, Carol, to death after they left childbirth classes at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in October 1989 and shot himself as part of his cover story.

The admission of the accused is a major blow for this defense. Anytime there is a confession the criminal defense attorney will challenge it to determine whether or not is admissible---meaning can the government be allowed to admit it as evidence. In this case, the admission of the Defendant so quickly after the alleged crime is unusual. The reason it is unusual is because if someone was to go to such great lengths to organize and coordinate a murder- they would also be prepared to respond to inquires from law enforcement. Here, the reports indicate that they began questioning very quickly after the crime and the accused very quickly made a confession. This is another reason to always contact a criminal defense lawyer PRIOR to questioning from law enforcement.