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COMMONWEALTH v. ARCE

426 Mass. 601 (1998)

COMMONWEALTH v. PEDRO ARCE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 4, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Alan Curhan (Lissa McKinney with him) for the defendant.

Jane A. Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney (Robert Tochka, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

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

WILKINS, C.J.

On December 16, 1994, a Suffolk County jury convicted seventy-three year old Pedro Arce of the murder in the first degree of his wife Hortensia in March, 1967. The defendant was discovered and arrested in Aracibo, Puerto Rico, in 1993 and brought to Boston. The defendant challenges several evidentiary rulings and seeks relief under G. L. c. 278, § 33E. We affirm the conviction.

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