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COMMONWEALTH v. VACHER

SJC-11220

469 Mass. 425 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH v. ROBERT B. VACHER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

August 19, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Sultan ( Kerry Haberlin with him) for the defendant.

Julia K. Holler , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, GANTS, DUFFLY, & LENK, JJ.

LENK, J.

A Superior Court jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree, on theories of deliberate premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty, and felony-murder.2 On appeal, the defendant asks us to recognize for the first time the concept of "target standing," and to declare the witness immunity statute, G. L. c. 233, § 20C, unconstitutional. He argues that, in litigating his own motions to suppress, he should have...

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