COMMONWEALTH v. WATERS


420 Mass. 276 (1995)

COMMONWEALTH vs. ARTHUR T. WATERS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 8, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond A. O'Hara for the defendant.

Annemarie Relyea-Chew, Assistant District Attorney (David P. Linsky, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, & GREANEY, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The defendant appeals from his conviction (on all three theories) of murder in the first degree and of aggravated rape.1 The victim had been raped and stabbed to death on February 17, 1992, in her Framingham apartment. The defendant (1) challenges the denial of pretrial motions to suppress evidence, (2) argues that the loss of potentially exculpatory evidence required dismissal of the indictments, (3) claims that the evidence...

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