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2nd home invasion trial to begin in Connecticut

Monday, September 19, 2011

FILE - This March 14, 2011 file photo provided by the Connecticut Department of Correction shows Joshua Komisarjevsky. Komisarjevsky's trial starts Monday, Sept. 19, 2011, in New Haven Superior Court, where he faces the death penalty on charges of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters in a July 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Conn. (AP Photo/Connecticut Department of Correction, File)

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - September 19, 2011 (WPVI) -- A second man is going on trial in connection with the killings of a woman and her two daughters during a 2007 home invasion in Connecticut.

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Thirty-one-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky is set to go on trial Monday in New Haven Superior Court and faces a possible death sentence if convicted. His co-defendant, Steven Hayes, was sentenced to death last year.

Authorities say the two paroled burglars broke into a Cheshire home in July 2007, beat Dr. William Petit and killed his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and their two daughters, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley. Dr. Petit survived.

Prosecutors say Hayes raped and strangled Hawke-Petit, and Komisarjevsky sexually molested Michaela. The two girls were tied up and died of smoke inhalation after the home was set on fire.

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