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COMMONWEALTH v. REED

397 Mass. 440 (1986)

492 N.E.2d 80

COMMONWEALTH vs. PAUL S. REED.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

April 29, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter T. Healy (Roger Witkin with him) for the defendant.

Mary Ellen O'Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

ABRAMS, J.

On November 8, 1981, the body of a young woman was found, strangled to death, in a wooded area of Middleborough. The defendant, Paul S. Reed, stands convicted of murder in the first degree for the victim's death. Critical to the Commonwealth's case was the evidence provided by one Patton Flannery, an inmate at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater. Flannery said that the defendant admitted...

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