COMMONWEALTH v. TANNER


417 Mass. 1 (1994)

627 N.E.2d 895

COMMONWEALTH vs. SHAWN L. TANNER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

February 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce R. Taub for the defendant.

Cynthia A. Vincent, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


WILKINS, J.

The defendant's appeal from his conviction of murder in the first degree presents several issues, none which provides a ground for the reversal of that conviction or for relief from this court under G.L.c. 278, § 33E (1992 ed.).

The jury would have been warranted in finding that on April 28, 1988, the victim, a dancer at a local nightclub, was strangled to death in a motel room in Dartmouth. The defendant, who occasionally worked at the nightclub...

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