COMMONWEALTH v. CARLSON


448 Mass. 501 (2007)

COMMONWEALTH v. RICHARD CARLSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

March 12, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brownlow M. Speer, Committee for Public Counsel Services (Lawrence J. McGuire, Committee for Public Counsel Services, with him) for the defendant.

Kenneth E. Steinfield, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


SPINA, J.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on the theory of extreme atrocity or cruelty. On appeal he alleges error in the admission of evidence of lack of remorse, and a rental arrangement allegedly offered as a prior bad act used to take advantage of the victim. He also argues that the judge's instruction on the use of evidence of prior bad acts impermissibly reduced the Commonwealth's burden of...

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