COMMONWEALTH v. HINDS

SJC-10415

457 Mass. 83 (2010)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN J. HINDS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 10, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willie J. Davis for the defendant.

Marguerite T. Grant, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


GANTS, J.

On October 16, 1998, the defendant, in the kitchen of his mother's home, shot his sister, Patricia Melo, in the head,1 then walked outside and shot and killed his half-brother, Joseph Warren Beranger (Warren), and his sister-in-law, Mary Beranger (Mary).2 A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of the premeditated murder in the first degree of...

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