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COMMONWEALTH v. ROSARIO

21 Mass. App. Ct. 286 (1985)

486 N.E.2d 769

COMMONWEALTH vs. VICTOR ROSARIO.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

December 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Zorza, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Emily Jay Gould, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GRANT, KAPLAN, & SMITH, JJ.

GRANT, J.

The defendant has appealed from a conviction of arson of a dwelling (G.L.c. 266, § 1) and from eight convictions of murder in the second degree (G.L.c. 265, § 1). Eight persons perished when a three-story tenement in Lowell went up in flames on March 5, 1982.

The defendant was convicted on the basis of three written confessions which he gave the police shortly after the fire.1 The last, and most explicit, reads...

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