COMMONWEALTH v. COMPANONIO.


445 Mass. 39 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH vs. ALFREDO COMPANONIO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

August 30, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chauncey B. Wood for the defendant.

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

Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, & Sosman, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

This appeal is decided some eighteen years after the defendant's conviction of murder in the first degree. The lengthy procedural history of the appeal that explains the delay is as follows. On April 23, 1987, a Superior Court jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree.1 Almost five years later, on January 31, 1992, the defendant, represented by new counsel, filed a...

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