COMMONWEALTH v. CRUZ


424 Mass. 207 (1997)

COMMONWEALTH v. HERNAN CRUZ.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 6, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Neyman for the defendant.

Katherine E. McMahon, Assistant District Attorney (James W. Coffey, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., O'CONNOR, GREANEY, FRIED, & MARSHALL, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant, Hernan Cruz, of murder in the first degree of his estranged girl friend, Francisca Guthrie (victim), on the basis of both deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The jury also convicted the defendant of stalking the victim, in violation of G. L. c. 265, § 43 (a), and of committing an armed assault with intent to murder on the victim...

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