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COMMONWEALTH v. ALICEA

376 Mass. 506 (1978)

381 N.E.2d 144

COMMONWEALTH vs. LUIS GERMAN ALICEA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

October 3, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lazar Lowinger & Manuel Nelson Zapata for the defendant.

Susan C. Mormino, Assistant District Attorney (Michael J. McHugh, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, & LIACOS, JJ.

KAPLAN, J.

Between late afternoon of May 10, 1975, and sometime after midnight of May 11, a number of incidents, with some attendant violence, occurred at the Julian Steele Housing Project in Lowell pitting "Puerto Rican" against "American" residents or adherents.1 About 12:30 A.M., or later, a young woman, seventeen-year old Sylvia Cormier, standing outside 92-94 Shaughnessy Terrace, part of building 3 of the project, was killed by a...

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