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Key witness hit by questioning

The defense rips into key testimony at murder trial

By Maria Cramer

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 22, 2012

A career criminal who is a key prosecution witness in a 2010 quadruple slaying in Mattapan admitted today under cross-examination that his lifestyle called on him to lie to police and to prosecutors. Kimani Washington, 36, was testifying in the trial of two other men charged with the slayings, his cousin, Edward Washington, and Dwayne Moore, 34.

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