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COMMONWEALTH v. TORRES

420 Mass. 479 (1995)

COMMONWEALTH vs. PEDRO F. TORRES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

June 12, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownlow M. Speer for the defendant.

Mary O'Neil, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

LIACOS, C.J.

On November 21, 1991, a jury convicted the defendant of deliberately premeditated murder in the first degree. The trial judge sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment.1 On appeal, the defendant asserts that the conviction must be reversed because of several alleged errors in the judge's instructions to the jury. He also requests that we exercise our power under G.L.c. 278, § 33E (1992 ed.), to reduce the verdict from...

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