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Porco, whos now 29, is serving 50 years in upstate danemora prison. He was convicted, in 2006, of axing his father, peter, to death and severely maiming his mother, joan, in the same attack. Convicted murderer christopher porco is set to appeal his guilty verdict after 17 years, and he has the full support of the mother he is said to have brutally maimed.

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Goshen an expert neurologist testified monday that it was extremely unlikely, if not impossible, that joan porco, as paramedics treated her, remembered the brutal ax attack that left her. Christopher porco, 22, is accused of attacking his parents with an ax as they slept in their home in 2004. He allegedly killed his father and put his mother into a coma in what appears to have been the drastic act of a desperate young man in deep financial difficulty. It was hardly a promising beginning for a relationship when edward and joan (powers) porco met for the first time at a new years eve party in 1959.

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Edward, a republican at the time, and joan, a political activist democrat with liberal leanings, argued about interracial housing. Joan porco looks back at the courthouse as she quickly left the courtroom after her son christopher porco's sentencing to 50 years to life at the albany county courthouse in albany, tuesday.

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