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COMMONWEALTH v. GIROUARD

436 Mass. 657 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. CARL GIROUARD, SR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 1, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Sultan for the defendant.

Katherine E. McMahon, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

The victim in this case was brutally stabbed to death in August, 1988. Although the defendant was a suspect in the killing, he was not charged with the victim's murder until December, 1998. Thereafter, a jury in the Superior Court convicted him of murder in the first degree by reason of extreme atrocity or cruelty. In returning their verdict, the jury credited the Commonwealth's evidence, consisting of the defendant...

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