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COMMONWEALTH v. KATER

432 Mass. 404 (2000)

COMMONWEALTH v. JAMES M. KATER.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 30, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Krowski (Michael A. Bergeron with him) for the defendant.

Elspeth B. Cypher, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., ABRAMS, GREANEY, & SPINA, JJ.

SPINA, J.

This is the seventh appeal in the Commonwealth's prosecution of James M. Kater (Kater) for the kidnapping and murder of Mary Lou Arruda, which began with his indictment on November 28, 1978. In 1979, a jury found him guilty of kidnapping and murder in the first degree. We reversed that conviction because certain testimony that had been or might have been hypnotically aided was erroneously admitted. Commonwealth v. Kater, 388...

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