COMMONWEALTH v. THOMAS

No. SJC-10826.

469 Mass. 531 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH v. CHITEARA M. THOMAS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

September 2, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Smith for the defendant.

Mary E. Lee , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


GANTS, J.

In the early morning of July 6, 2006, the defendant, Chiteara M. Thomas, used a cigarette lighter to set fire to a curtain in the first-floor apartment of a three-story house in Brockton (house). The fire quickly spread from the first floor to the upstairs apartments. Olinda Calderon, a resident in the third-floor apartment, died in the fire, and several residents and guests in the second- and third-floor apartments were injured. A Superior Court jury convicted...

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