COMMONWEALTH v. OLSEN


452 Mass. 284 (2008)

COMMONWEALTH v. PATRICIA OLSEN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Berkshire.

August 28, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet H. Pumphrey for the defendant.

David F. Capeless, District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, & BOTSFORD, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

The victim, Neil Olsen, died as a result of blunt force trauma and multiple gunshot wounds inflicted by the defendant's son, the victim's stepson, on the evening of January 9, 2005. Thereafter, in connection with this killing, a jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree, as a joint venturer, on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. Represented by new counsel...

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