COMMONWEALTH v. HAWKESWORTH


405 Mass. 664 (1989)

543 N.E.2d 691

COMMONWEALTH vs. NORMAN HAWKESWORTH (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimberly Homan (Norman S. Zalkind with her) for Norman Hawkesworth.

Stephen Hrones for John Morgan.

David B. Mark, Assistant District Attorney (James Hamrock, Assistant District Attorney, & Julie W. Heflin, Legal Assistant to the District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

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


LIACOS, C.J.

Convicted of murder in the first degree, on a felony-murder theory, the defendants appeal, claiming various errors in their transfers from the juvenile session of the District Court to the Superior Court and in their joint trial. Each defendant challenges the verbatim adoption, by the District Court judge, of the Commonwealth's proposed findings and rulings in his transfer decision, and each challenges the sufficiency of the evidence in support of those...

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