COMMONWEALTH v. COLLERAN


452 Mass. 417 (2008)

COMMONWEALTH v. ERIN J. COLLERAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.

October 23, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet H. Pumphrey for the defendant.

Julia K. Holler, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


SPINA, J.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The victim was her two and one-half year old daughter, Skyler. The defendant appeals from the denial of her motion for a new trial, in which she claimed (a) the judge erred by ordering her to proceed to trial in a medicated state, (b) counsel was ineffective for failing to advise her that she had a right to present herself to...

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