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COMMONWEALTH v. COSTA

407 Mass. 216 (1990)

552 N.E.2d 106

COMMONWEALTH vs. KEVIN COSTA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

April 9, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Campbell for the defendant.

Elspeth B. Cypher, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

NOLAN, J.

On October 8, 1987, the defendant, Kevin Costa, was indicted for murder and kidnapping. The defendant was tried before a jury, the jury found him guilty of kidnapping and murder in the first degree on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 The defendant received the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for the murder conviction and from eight to ten years for the kidnapping conviction, the...

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