COMMONWEALTH v. AZAR


444 Mass. 72 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH vs. DAVID M. AZAR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 22, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marguerite T. Grant, Assistant District Attorney (Sheila M. Calkins, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Robert A. George for the defendant.

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


COWIN, J.

The defendant, David M. Azar, was convicted of murder in the second degree in 1989, and sentenced to life in prison. We later ordered a new trial, see Commonwealth v. Azar, 435 Mass. 675 (2002), but then the defendant pleaded guilty to the lesser included offense of manslaughter. He received credit for time served under his 1989 conviction, with the balance of his...

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