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COMMONWEALTH v. PETETABELLA

No. SJC-10720.

459 Mass. 177 (2011)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN F. PETETABELLA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

March 30, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Shea for the defendant.

Rachel J. Eisenhaure , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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

CORDY, J.

In the early morning hours of December 28, 1963,1 Jean Thibeault was shot and killed during a robbery of the bar he owned in Fall River. The defendant and two other men2 were convicted of his murder and other offenses3 on July 2, 1964. On his conviction of murder in the first degree, the jury recommended that the death penalty, then in effect, not be imposed, and the defendant...

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