COMMONWEALTH v. WATSON


388 Mass. 536 (1983)

447 N.E.2d 1182

COMMONWEALTH vs. JAMES J. WATSON (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 23, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Shapiro for Frederick Clay.

Walter T. Healy for James J. Watson.

M. Catherine Huddleson, Assistant District Attorney (John N. Tramontozzi, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

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


WILKINS, J.

The defendants were convicted of the murder in the first degree of Jeffrey S. Boyajian. They appeal from their convictions, raising a common challenge to the admission of testimony from a witness who had been hypnotized and raising individual challenges on certain other issues. We conclude that Clay, who was a juvenile at the time of the crime, was properly transferred from the juvenile system for trial pursuant to the adult system. Neither defendant was...

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