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COMMONWEALTH v. SIEGFRIEDT

402 Mass. 424 (1988)

522 N.E.2d 970

COMMONWEALTH vs. KENT A. SIEGFRIEDT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 17, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownlow M. Speer, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

David B. Mark, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

NOLAN, J.

The defendant, Kent A. Siegfriedt, was convicted on March 22, 1985, after a second jury trial,1 of wilful and malicious burning of a dwelling house. There was evidence from which the jury could find that the defendant intentionally set his mattress afire. The judge committed the defendant, pursuant to G.L.c. 123, § 15 (e) (1986 ed.), to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater for up to twenty days...

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