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COMMONWEALTH v. ALMONTE

444 Mass. 511 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH v. LUKA ALMONTE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

June 29, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beth L. Eisenberg, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for the defendant.

Gregory I. Massing, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

GREANEY, J.

The victim in this case died of multiple gunshot wounds inflicted on July 17, 1990. Ten years later, the defendant, with a Bible in hand, walked into a New York City police task force base to confess his involvement in the shooting. Thereafter, a jury in the Superior Court convicted him of murder in the first degree on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 Represented by new counsel on appeal...

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