COMMONWEALTH v. DICKSON


386 Mass. 230 (1982)

434 N.E.2d 1284

COMMONWEALTH vs. DAVID DICKSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Madden for the defendant.

Philip T. Beauchesne, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


NOLAN, J.

This appeal raises two issues: (1) whether error was committed in the denial of the defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of a violation of art. IV (c) of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (Agreement), a compact to which both Massachusetts and New York, among other States, are parties (St. 1965, c. 892, § 1), and (2) whether the verdict of murder in the second degree should be reduced in the exercise of our power under G.L.c. 278, ...

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