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COMMONWEALTH v. DiPADOVA

SJC-10743.

460 Mass. 424 (2011)

COMMONWEALTH v. NINO DiPADOVA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 22, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin S. Nixon for the defendant.

Bethany Stevens , Assistant District Attorney ( Kevin L. Ryle , Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

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

BOTSFORD, J.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree in the death of Nancy Carignan, his former landlady, on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The primary defense at trial was that the defendant lacked criminal responsibility for his actions because, at the time of the murder, he was suffering from auditory hallucinations commanding him to kill the victim. In his direct...

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