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State Senator Fred Akshar acknowledged that he had a sexual
relationship with the mother of a murder victim, whose case he helped to
investigate when he was a Captain in the Broome County Sheriff's
Department.   Akshar admitted to the
affair with Mirella Masciarelli, whose son Mario was killed along with
Christina Powell, by Powell's estranged husband Aaron Powell, after Powell's
first trial, that ended in a conviction, but before Aaron Powell was granted a
retrial, and was convicted a 2nd time.
The affair occurred before Akshar was elected to the State Senate;
Broome County Sheriff David Harder told reporters that there is nothing in the
Sheriff's Department manual prohibiting such behavior.
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Aaron Powell of Binghamton was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole in Broome County court on Today.  Powell was recently retried for the murder of
his estranged wife Christina & Mario Masciarelli in the Powell family home
in 2013, he was convicted a 2nd time after he was granted a retrial by a higher
court, Powell will serve the same sentence that he received following his first
conviction.
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Aaron Powell was found guilty on all charges Thursday in
Broome County Court, for the 2013 murders of his estranged wife Christina &
Mario Masciarelli, in Binghamton.  Powell
was granted a 2nd trial by a higher court, which led to this week's trial, and
a 2nd conviction for these murders.
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The Murder Trial of Aaron Powell
has been turned over to the jury in Broome County Court for deliberations this
afternoon.  Powell is facing a 2nd trial
for the murder of his estranged wife Christina & Mario Masciarelli in
Binghamton on March 22nd, 2013. Powell’s early conviction had been overturned
by a higher court & this 2nd trial was ordered.
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The 2nd murder Trial of Aaron
Powell of Binghamton continues in Broome County Court.  Powell is accused of killing his estranged
wife Christina & Mario Masciarelli at Christina's Residence on Lisi Lane in
Binghamton on March 21st 2013.  Powell
was found guilty of several felony counts in his first trial; a higher court
overturned the original conviction & ordered a new trial.
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Jury selection began Tuesday & continued today in Broome
County Court for the re-trial of Aaron Powell of Binghamton.  Powell was convicted of murdering 35-year-old
Christina Powell and 24-year-old Mario Masciarelli in 2013 at Christina
Powell’s' residence, a new trial was ordered due to a conflict of interest
involving one of the original jurors, who had worked on the divorce & child
cases for the Powell's. Aaron Powell had been sentenced to life without parole
in the original conviction.
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