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COMMONWEALTH v. NIGHELLI

13 Mass. App. Ct. 590 (1982)

435 N.E.2d 1058

COMMONWEALTH vs. JAMES NIGHELLI (and a companion case).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

May 28, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Grossberg for Warren E. Melanson.

Martin S. Cosgrove for James Nighelli.

Robert S. Sinsheimer, Assistant District Attorney (Bruce W. Edmands, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: GREANEY, CUTTER, & DREBEN, JJ.

CUTTER, J.

The defendants Nighelli and Melanson were found guilty, after a six-day trial before a Superior Court judge and a jury, on indictments charging that each conspired with the other on July 3 and 12, 1979, and on other occasions between July 3 and 24, 1979, to murder Vincent Ferrara. Each defendant has appealed. At trial, each defendant rested at the close of the Commonwealth's case, and filed a motion for a required finding of not guilty. These motions were...

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