COMMONWEALTH v. CHAMPAGNE


399 Mass. 80 (1987)

503 N.E.2d 7

COMMONWEALTH vs. RAYMOND CHAMPAGNE (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

January 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellen A. Howard, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Raymond Champagne.

Edward J. McCormick, III, for Ronald Hogan.

Charles J. Hely, Assistant District Attorney (Stephanie Martin Glennon, Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

John M. Russell, Jr., for James Gallo, submitted a brief.

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


WILKINS, J.

The defendants, inmates in the State prison at Walpole (now Cedar Junction), were convicted in August, 1979, of murder in the first degree of a fellow inmate, Stephen L. Curvin.2 The defendants raise a variety of issues, some advanced individually and others advanced jointly. The issues arise both on appeals from the convictions and on appeals from the denial of posttrial motions....

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