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COMMONWEALTH v. CASSESSO

368 Mass. 124 (1975)

330 N.E.2d 209

COMMONWEALTH vs. RONALD ANTHONY CASSESSO (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 11, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher D. Dye for the defendants.

Kathleen M. Curry, Special Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, QUIRICO, KAPLAN, & WILKINS; JJ.

WILKINS, J.

The defendants were found guilty of being accessories before the fact to murder. The jury did not recommend that sentences of death be not imposed (G.L.c. 265, § 2), and the defendants were sentenced to death as the statute directed. Their appeals to this court were unsuccessful, but as an aftermath of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), their sentences were vacated as to the death penalty by the Supreme...

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