A Wayland man convicted in 2013 of strangling and stabbing his former high school sweetheart just weeks after graduation is seeking a new murder trial.
Attorneys for Nathaniel Fujita, who was 20 when he was found guilty in the July 2011 killing of Lauren Astley, appeared before the state’s Supreme Judicial Court on Wednesday after a Middlesex Superior Court judge denied his request for a retrial in 2023.
Fujita’s attorney appealed the 2023 ruling in June, claiming the judge was negligent and applied faulty reasoning to her ruling.
Both Fujita and Astley were 18 years old at the time of the murder…