High court sends doc wife slaying case back to MA

BOSTON (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the state's highest court to reconsider the case of a once-prominent Massachusetts doctor convicted of killing his wife in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling on DNA testimony.

The high court today sent Dirk Greineder's case back to the Supreme Judicial Court for further consideration.

Greineder was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001 in the death of his wife in Wellesley in 1999.

The Supreme Judicial Court upheld Greineder's conviction in 2010 and denied him a new trial.

On Friday, the Supreme Court vacated the SJC's judgment and sent it back to the court to take another look.

Greineder was a well-known allergist at Brigham & Women's Hospital when he was charged with killing his wife. Prosecutors said he killed her after she found out about his secret life of prostitutes and Internet pornography.