COMMONWEALTH v. SIELICKI


391 Mass. 377 (1984)

461 N.E.2d 1210

COMMONWEALTH vs. EVERETT W. SIELICKI.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

March 12, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. O'Neill for the defendant.

Lila Heideman, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


HENNESSEY, C.J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction of two counts of murder in the first degree, claiming that he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel and that the trial judge abused his discretion by admitting in evidence repetitious gruesome photographs of the bodies of the victims. We affirm.

The jury could have found the following facts. During the morning of Sunday, April 20, 1980, the defendant, along with

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