Keywords: Francis turczyn.jpg en Francis Turczyn was arrested in 1962 for the murder of his wife docket numbers for manslaughter 12/10/1962 281924ZZ BO 281925ZZ 10/31/1963 NG and in 963 was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury of his peers and found not guilty by Judge Gourdin and later brought back for the murder of his unborn baby and found not guilty by Judge Troy under the double jeopardy laws just passed in Massachusetts making a presidential case He was represented by F Lee Bailey and was his first big murder case in the 60 ™s Just out of Boston University Bailey was hired at the time for 2 300 dollars Bailey's later cases went on to be more public and making movies but if this case was looked into along with Francis Turczyn ™s life today would make a great story and or movie During the time of his trial Nancy Ells met him in a bar where he was working as a bar tender and was later ordered to marry her because she was pregnant she already had a son at the time and said she was not married this was out of the Chelsea District Court he complied with the court order and married her In 2002 he found out during his divorce that the woman he was ordered to marry was already married creating an Illegal marriage He lost over a Million Dollars to a Polyandrist This was mentioned at the divorce hearing Judge at the Suffolk county superior court didn ™t want to hear it Now he ™s trying to sue the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for violating his civil rights in the order of his marriage to Nancy in 67 and has run in road block after road block He tried to file a case in Chelsea district court but the district attorney laughed and said ya you think you had F Lee Bailey as your attorney after a short conversation where he mentioned Bailey ™s name The case and the appeal filed in U S Appeals Court NO 10-1415 Turczyn has all the news paper clippings from the case and are on public file in the Chelsea public library The case was later dismissed for lack of jurisdiction Turczyn refiled in the suffolk superior court docket number 2010-02529D and is under review Source own Francisturczyn1 2010-05-02 Texts |