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COMMONWEALTH v. SPERRAZZA

404 Mass. 19 (1989)

533 N.E.2d 200

COMMONWEALTH vs. THOMAS SPERRAZZA (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk, Suffolk.

January 24, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Sheketoff for the defendant.

Stephanie Martin Glennon, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

HENNESSEY, C.J.

In 1982, Sperrazza (defendant) was tried before a jury and convicted of the murder in the first degree of John Stokes, a fellow inmate at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Cedar Junction (then Walpole). The defendant was sentenced to life in prison, to be served from and after consecutive life sentences he was then serving. The defendant moved for a new trial on the ground that the judge had erred...

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