LANCASTER — Attorneys faced off in Coos Superior Court on Tuesday over tight deadlines as the so-called "Fallen 7" trial of Volodymyr Zhukovskyy nears in late July.
Zhukovskyy, 25, of West Springfield, Mass., faces multiple counts of negligent homicide and manslaughter in a June 2019 collision that killed seven members of the JarHead Motorcycle Club on Route 2 in Randolph.
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