COMMONWEALTH v. LALIBERTY


373 Mass. 238 (1977)

366 N.E.2d 736

COMMONWEALTH vs. MICHAEL G. LALIBERTY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

August 26, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Shumway for the defendant.

James P. Donohue, Assistant District Attorney (Edward P. Ryan, Jr., Special Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, WILKINS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

We affirm the defendant's convictions of murder in the first degree of Frank C. Dickinson and Bertha L. Dickinson. The victims, husband and wife and each over eighty years old, were brutally murdered on the night of September 8, 1975, in their home in Auburn. The defendant was sentenced to consecutive life sentences.

The defendant argues that the judge should have excluded from evidence black and white photographs of the victims. The photographs...

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