Ex-Albany water worker convicted of killing 2 women gets hearing to make case

ALBANY – Convicted double-murderer Edward “Ted” Mero will get a hearing next month to try to show that his 2017 trial was tainted by a secret business relationship between defense attorney Cheryl Coleman and an Albany County prosecutor.Mero, 32, a former Albany city water worker, is serving 50 years to life in Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Washington County for the murders of Megan Cunningham and Shelby Countermine, both 23, who died less than two years apart.On Tuesday