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COMMONWEALTH v. RUTHERFORD

SJC-12094.

476 Mass. 639 (2017)

COMMONWEALTH v. JAMES RUTHERFORD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

March 16, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jennifer H. O'Brien for the defendant.

Ellyn H. Lazar-Moore , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, HINES, GAZIANO, & LOWY, JJ.

A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on theories of deliberate premeditation and felony-murder, in the July, 2011, death of Francis Spokis.1 At trial, the defendant conceded that he and his girl friend broke into the victim's home, robbed him, beat him, and stabbed him...

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