COMMONWEALTH v. RIDGE


455 Mass. 307 (2009)

COMMONWEALTH v. JAMES P. RIDGE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

November 10, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Rosseel for the defendant.

Tracey A. Cusick, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


IRELAND, J.

After his first trial ended in a mistrial,1 the defendant was convicted of the murders in the first degree of Jay Schlosser and Heather Buchanan, on the theories of deliberate premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty, and felony-murder.2 He appealed from his convictions and from the denial of his postconviction motions for a new trial and for postconviction discovery. The defendant argues that...

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