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COMMONWEALTH v. ADAMS

434 Mass. 805 (2001)

COMMONWEALTH v. RICHARD ADAMS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

August 14, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Sultan (Catherine J. Hinton with him) for the defendant.

Varsha Kukafka, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

CORDY, J.

In the early evening of July 18, 1996, Richard Adams1 brutally murdered his mother-in-law at her home in Foxborough, by stabbing her repeatedly in the chest and abdomen and striking her in the head with a blunt instrument. Shortly thereafter, Adams killed his father-in-law as he returned from work and was about to enter the home, striking him fourteen times in the head and neck with a hammer. Adams then set fire to the house...

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