MILFORD — The man convicted of pulling the trigger during a 2012 West Haven killing is awaiting a new trial more than three years after the state Supreme Court overturned a jury’s verdicts in his case.
Eugene Walker, 36, appeared briefly before Judge Peter Brown on Wednesday in state Superior Court in Milford, where lawyers said they were hammering out scheduling issues.
Walker’s lawyer, Trent LaLima, said he’d be filing a number of motions in the case “soon,” but declined to be more specific afterward.
Walker is scheduled to return to court Sept. 22 after a remote hearing Sept. 15.
He was one of four people charged in death of 22-year-old Neville Malacai Registe Jr., who was found by West Haven police early on Oct. 29, 2012, in a car pinned against a utility pole on Glade Street near the West Haven Housing Authority, just before Superstorm Sandy hit the area.
Registe, a New Haven resident, was covered in blood and appeared unconscious. He later died at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Inside the car where Registe was found, police found a bandanna a witness told them had been worn by the shooter. The state police crime lab later determined that Walker’s DNA was on the bandanna after prosecutors obtained a court order for a sample.
At a 2014 trial, Walker was found guilty of felony murder, first-degree manslaughter, attempted robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
Despite the verdicts, he maintained his innocence at his...
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