COMMONWEALTH v. ANESTAL

No. SJC-10547.

463 Mass. 655 (2012)

COMMONWEALTH v. SOLANGE ANESTAL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

November 6, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Shaw, Jr. , for the defendant.

Robert C. Thompson , Assistant District Attorney ( Sharon E. Donatelle , Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

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


LENK, J.

The defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation in the 2003 stabbing death of her boy friend, Baby Petitry. Before us are the defendant's consolidated appeals from both her conviction and the denial of her motion for a new trial. We conclude that, because on multiple occasions, over objection, the trial judge erroneously allowed the Commonwealth...

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