COMMONWEALTH v. JOHNSON


412 Mass. 368 (1992)

589 N.E.2d 311

COMMONWEALTH vs. JEFFREY J. JOHNSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

April 7, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Harwood of New York, for the defendant.

Robert C. Thompson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


LYNCH, J.

After a jury trial in the Superior Court, the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree by reason of deliberate premeditation, larceny of a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, and unlawfully carrying a firearm.1 Appealing only from his murder conviction, the defendant challenges portions of the trial judge's instructions to the jury concerning defense of another, malice...

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