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COMMONWEALTH v. RIVERA

441 Mass. 358 (2004)

COMMONWEALTH v. LUIS RIVERA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

March 30, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter M. Onek, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Beverly J. Cannone, Committee for Public Counsel Services, with him) for the defendant.

Robert C. Cosgrove, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

COWIN, J.

A jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on grounds of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. His defense at trial was that he lacked criminal responsibility due to his mental illness at the time of the killing.1 The defendant appeals, claiming errors in the denial of his motion to suppress2 and errors at trial. He maintains that his motion to suppress should...

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