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COMMONWEALTH v. DUNG VAN TRAN

SJC-10853.

463 Mass. 8 (2012)

COMMONWEALTH v. DUNG VAN TRAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 26, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Caddick for the defendant.

Macy Lee , Assistant District Attorney ( David A. Deakin , Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Michael T. Porter , Christopher J. Anasoulis , & James T. Hilliard , for Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

DUFFLY, J.

Late in the afternoon of January 8, 2007, the defendant drove to the apartment of his estranged wife, Lien Lam, and their two children.1 After entering the apartment and speaking briefly with his six year old son, the defendant retrieved a can of gasoline from his vehicle and carried it into the room where his fourteen month old daughter, Diana, was sleeping. The defendant poured the gasoline in such a manner that it landed...

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