COMMONWEALTH v. ORTIZ


435 Mass. 569 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. PABLO SOTO ORTIZ.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 8, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Hrones for the defendant.

Rosemary Daly, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


GREANEY, J.

On September 18, 1998, a jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of the 1984 murder in the first degree (on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty) of Bernette McLaurin and assault with intent to rape Zindy Gomez. McLaurin and Gomez resided in an apartment building located next to a fruit store operated by the defendant. The defendant fled after the murder and was apprehended and arrested in July, 1995, in Puerto...

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