COMMONWEALTH v. DRUCE

SJC-10045

453 Mass. 686 (2009)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOSEPH L. DRUCE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

April 27, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greg T. Schubert for the defendant.

Donna-Marie Haran, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


IRELAND, J.

Based on the brutal strangulation of a fellow inmate, the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree by reason of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The defendant's pro se motion for a new trial, in which he asserted that his trial counsel furnished him with constitutionally ineffective representation, was denied by the trial judge without an evidentiary hearing. Represented by present appellate counsel, the defendant...

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