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COMMONWEALTH v. DINKINS

440 Mass. 715 (2004)

COMMONWEALTH vs. WILLIAM F. DINKINS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 22, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Shea for the defendant.

Susanne Levsen Reardon, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: Greaney, Spina, Cowin, Sosman, & Cordy, JJ.

CORDY, J.

After a jury trial, William F. Dinkins was found guilty of felony-murder in the first degree. On appeal, he argues that his motion to suppress testimony about ballistics evidence destroyed by the Commonwealth was wrongly denied, that his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to highlight an inconsistency in the trial testimony during his closing argument, and that the trial judge incorrectly instructed the jury...

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