COMMONWEALTH v. SERINO


436 Mass. 408 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN A. SERINO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 28, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Harwood for the defendant.

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

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


MARSHALL, C.J.

Convicted of deliberately premeditated murder, John A. Serino appeals from that judgment and from the denial of his motion for a new trial. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence; argues that the judge failed to conduct, sua sponte, a voir dire on the voluntariness of his out-of-court statements; claims that trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to obtain an independent psychiatric evaluation of the defendant's competence...

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