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COMMONWEALTH v. COLEMAN

389 Mass. 667 (1983)

452 N.E.2d 202

COMMONWEALTH vs. RONALD COLEMAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

July 13, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evan T. Lawson (Paul M. Osborne with him) for the defendant.

Gary A. Nickerson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

The defendant was convicted by a jury on December 10, 1981, of murder in the first degree for the fatal stabbing of Janice M. Leary.1 The defendant allegedly stabbed the victim twenty-six times on April 22, 1981, at the Sand Castle condominium in Provincetown. He was sentenced to a term of life imprisonment, and now appeals his conviction. G.L.c. 278, § 33E.

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