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COMMONWEALTH v. FICKETT

403 Mass. 194 (1988)

526 N.E.2d 1064

COMMONWEALTH vs. RICHARD A. FICKETT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

August 10, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wendy Sibbison for the defendant.

William T. Walsh, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

WILKINS, J.

About 6 P.M., on December 27, 1980, a police officer found the body of John Devine lying on the side of a road in Agawam. Devine had recently died from two bullet wounds to the back of the head. On January 3, 1981, the police arrested the defendant and one David Morales for Devine's murder.

There was evidence that the victim had been shot by a handgun owned by Morales. There was also evidence that, on...

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