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COMMONWEALTH v. HART

455 Mass. 230 (2009)

COMMONWEALTH v. MICHAEL HART.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 20, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruth Greenberg for the defendant.

John P. Zanini, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

GANTS, J.

On the evening of April 30, 2005, the defendant went to the home of Beother Billingslea. On encountering his former girl friend, Tangela Gibson, on the front porch, the defendant slashed her throat. When Billingslea came to Gibson's aid, the defendant stabbed him to death. Based on these events, a jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree of Billingslea on a theory of deliberate premeditation,1

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