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COMMONWEALTH v. PRATER

420 Mass. 569 (1995)

COMMONWEALTH vs. CHARLES E. PRATER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

June 15, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leah R. Kunkel (Kim Charles Rosen with her) for the defendant.

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

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

ABRAMS, J.

Notwithstanding his defense of lack of criminal responsibility, the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree by reason of extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 The defendant appeals on the grounds that (1) the evidence was insufficient to support the trial judge's determination that he was competent to stand trial; (2) a videotaped confession should have been suppressed as the tainted product of an earlier, suppressed confession...

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