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COMMONWEALTH v. PINA

430 Mass. 266 (1999)

COMMONWEALTH v. STEPHEN PINA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 20, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Neyman for the defendant.

Rosemary Daly, Assistant District Attorney (Robert Tochka, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.

IRELAND, J.

This case arises from a February 26, 1993, shooting death in the Mission Hill housing development in Boston. According to evidence presented at trial, both the victim and the defendant had been involved in distributing drugs in and around the Mission Hill development.1 The defendant relied on a defense of misidentification. The jury convicted the defendant of unlawful possession of a firearm and murder in the first degree on...

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