COMMONWEALTH v. FERGUSON


425 Mass. 349 (1997)

COMMONWEALTH v. RICHARD D. FERGUSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

July 1, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger A. Cox for the defendant.

Marcia H. Slingerland, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


ABRAMS, J.

After trial by jury, Richard D. Ferguson was convicted of murder in the first degree of his wife, Helen Ferguson, by reason of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. On appeal, the defendant argues that the trial judge erred in refusing to dismiss the jury foreman, who indicated during the trial that he recognized a Commonwealth witness as having baby-sat for his children approximately twenty-seven years earlier. The defendant also argues...

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