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COMMONWEALTH v. WRIGHT

444 Mass. 576 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH vs. DEREK WRIGHT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

July 1, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chauncey B. Wood for the defendant.

Marcia H. Slingerland, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

IRELAND, J.

A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation acting as a principal and of illegal possession of a firearm.1 On appeal, the defendant claims that admission of hearsay statements violated his constitutional right to confront and cross-examine his accusers, and that the prosecutor improperly bolstered a witness's testimony by introducing prior consistent hearsay...

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