COMMONWEALTH v. MORGANTI

SJC-09830.

455 Mass. 388 (2009)

COMMONWEALTH v. ROBERT J. MORGANTI, JR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

November 25, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Harwood for the defendant.

Mary E. Lee, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


GANTS, J.

On June 13, 2003, a jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree, based on both deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. Represented by new counsel on appeal, the defendant argues that the trial judge erred in (1) admitting in evidence statements, some of which were electronically recorded, made by the defendant more than six hours after his arrest in California on unrelated charges and after he had purportedly invoked his...

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