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COMMONWEALTH v. WATSON

377 Mass. 814 (1979)

388 N.E.2d 680

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSEPH WATSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 13, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clyde D. Bergstresser for the defendant.

Frances M. Burns. Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

QUIRICO, J.

The defendant Joseph Watson was convicted of the murder in the first degree of Marshall Joseph Ely. After entering his appeal in this court, he filed a motion for a new trial pursuant to G.L.c. 278, § 29, resting in part on the alleged recantation by one of the Commonwealth's main witnesses of the testimony she had given at the defendant's trial. The motion was remitted to the Superior Court for hearing and determination. G.L.c. 278, § 33E.<...

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