COMMONWEALTH v. ROSENTHAL


432 Mass. 124 (2000)

COMMONWEALTH v. RICHARD H. ROSENTHAL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 14, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Alan Curhan for the defendant.

Marguerite T. Grant, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, IRELAND, SPINA, & COWIN, JJ.


COWIN, J.

A jury rejected the defendant's claim that he lacked criminal responsibility and convicted him of murder in the first degree based on extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 At trial the defendant did not dispute that he committed the murder, but claimed that he was not criminally responsible. The defendant appeals from his conviction claiming that (1) the trial judge erred by admitting evidence of the defendant's alleged prior bad acts...

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