COMMONWEALTH v. SCOTT

SJC-11303

470 Mass. 320 (2014)

COMMONWEALTH v. ROBERT SCOTT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 26, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ruth Greenberg for the defendant.

Paul B. Linn , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


In December, 1984, a young woman was found dead, her body badly beaten, in a vacant lot in Boston. Twenty-three years later, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was extracted from samples taken from the victim's body and clothing soon after her death and run through a national computerized database. A match was found with the defendant's DNA. The...

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