COMMONWEALTH v. SKINNER


408 Mass. 88 (1990)

556 N.E.2d 1014

COMMONWEALTH vs. MICHAEL F. SKINNER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 18, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Sultan for the defendant.

Margaret C. Parks, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

On February 4, 1986, the defendant, Michael F. Skinner, was found guilty by a jury of both murder in the first degree and unlawfully carrying a firearm. He timely appealed from the murder conviction, citing as error the trial judge's supplemental instruction in response to a jury question regarding deliberate premeditation.

Represented by new counsel, Skinner filed a motion for a new trial in this court, raising the same error as that noted in his...

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