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COMMONWEALTH v. DESFONDS

No. 89-P-1156.

32 Mass. App. Ct. 311 (1992)

588 N.E.2d 722

COMMONWEALTH vs. JOSEPH E. DESFONDS.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 26, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Passalacqua (Jonathan M. Feigenbaum with him) for the defendant.

Catherine E. Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: KASS, GILLERMAN, & LAURENCE, JJ.

KASS, J.

Joseph Desfonds was convicted by a jury of the second degree murder of Kenneth Haines, who had been killed with a single rifle shot to the forehead on January 4, 1987. In his appeal, Desfonds claims he was denied the assistance of counsel who was free of conflict of interest and effective. A further error which the defendant asserts is that he was unlawfully deprived of an evidentiary hearing on his motion...

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