COMMONWEALTH v. GLASS.


401 Mass. 799 (1988)

519 N.E.2d 1311

COMMONWEALTH vs. ROBERT E. GLASS, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myles Jacobson (John M. Thompson with him) for the defendant.

Margaret Steen Melville, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

Shortly after midnight on July 24, 1983, the defendant, a United States Marine who had just completed basic training, stabbed four recent immigrants from Vietnam in front of or in their three-decker house at 35 Coleman Street in the Dorchester section of Boston. This much is not in serious dispute before us. The defendant was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree of the one victim who died. As to the surviving victims, he was convicted on three...

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