COMMONWEALTH v. GOULD


413 Mass. 707 (1992)

603 N.E.2d 201

COMMONWEALTH vs. WALTER GOULD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 19, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Hoose for the defendant.

Rosemary D. Mellor, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


GREANEY, J.

A jury in the Superior Court found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree on the basis of premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 A subsequent motion for a new trial (see Mass. R. Crim. P. 30 [b], 378 Mass. 900 [1979]) was denied by the trial judge without a hearing. Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues that his trial counsel provided him...

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