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Apr 4, 2008 1:38 pm US/Eastern

No New Trial For Man Charged With Writer's Murder

BARNSTABLE (WBZ) ― The garbage man accused of killing fashion writer Christa Worthington in her Cape Cod home will not be granted a new trial.

Christopher McCowen's defense attorney claimed the jury's verdict was tainted by racism and wanted a new trial for his client.

After McCowen's conviction in 2006, jurors complained that several other jurors made disparaging racial remarks about McCowen and blacks in general during deliberations.

The judge who heard the case, Gary Nickerson, said Friday that McCowen's conviction should stand.

McCowen is accused of raping and stabbing Worthington to death back in 2002.

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