COMMONWEALTH v. BENSON

SJC-09636

453 Mass. 90 (2009)

COMMONWEALTH v. MICHAEL E. BENSON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

January 16, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myles D. Jacobson for the defendant.

Robert C. Thompson, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


BOTSFORD, J.

Following a trial before a jury, the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree of Leon Weymouth on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. He appeals from his conviction and from the denial of his motion for a new trial, arguing that he was entitled to an instruction on voluntary manslaughter based on reasonable provocation induced by the victim's stalking him for the previous four weeks or so. We conclude that...

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