COMMONWEALTH v. WATSON


393 Mass. 297 (1984)

471 N.E.2d 88

COMMONWEALTH vs. JAMES J. WATSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 13, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank G. Kelleher for the defendant.

Ellen M. Donahue, Assistant District Attorney (Timothy Burke, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

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


HENNESSEY, C.J.

The defendant was convicted of the murder in the first degree of Jeffrey S. Boyajian. He appeals from his conviction, arguing: (1) that his Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by allegedly improper police conduct with respect to a photographic identification; (2) that the judge abused his discretion in refusing to accept the defendant's plea of guilty of murder in the second degree; and (3) that justice requires, under G.L.c. 278, § 33E...

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