COMMONWEALTH v. JENKINS

SJC-10144.

458 Mass. 791 (2011)

COMMONWEALTH v. SHAUN JENKINS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 4, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stewart T. Graham, Jr. , for the defendant.

Helle Sachse , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


COWIN, J.

The defendant was convicted by a jury in the Superior Court of murder in the first degree on the theory of deliberate premeditation. The defendant appeals from that conviction and from the denial of his motion for a new trial. He argues that, at the trial of the case, two allegedly hearsay statements were erroneously admitted; the prosecutor improperly cross-examined the defendant's mother without an adequate basis for certain questions; and the prosecutor...

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