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The flip side, in full view

By Kevin Cullen

 |  Globe Columnist  

  January 10, 2012

Deirdre Nikoras came to see the face of the teenager who police say killed her brother, Ciaran Conneely. Instead she saw the heart of the defense. The lawyer for 17-year-old John Graham says no one saw him shoot Conneely or two other men in a separate Dorchester attack, both of them failed robberies. Graham stayed out of public view at his arraignment on first-degree murder and robbery charges, but he was ordered held without bail to await trial.

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