COMMONWEALTH v. CARTER


423 Mass. 506 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN J. CARTER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

August 13, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Rappaport for the defendant.

Marcia B. Julian, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


LIACOS, C.J.

The defendant, John J. Carter, was tried before a jury in Hampden County in September, 1992, on indictments charging murder in the first degree and murder for hire. The jury returned a guilty verdict as to murder in the first degree, and acquitted as to the companion indictment.

We summarize the evidence and inferences the jury could have drawn from it. At approximately 6:30 P.M. on March 3, 1991, the defendant and Donald Vanhook drove in a blue...

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