COMMONWEALTH v. PAGAN

SJC-11714

471 Mass. 537 (2015)

31 N.E.3d 575

COMMONWEALTH v. JUAN PAGAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

June 1, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Palmer for the defendant.

Bethany Stevens , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Afton M. Templin , for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


On July 24, 2007, a jury convicted the defendant, Juan Pagan, of murder in the first degree on the theory of deliberate premeditation. At trial, there was no dispute that the defendant, when he was sixteen years of age, stabbed Alex Castro Santos (victim) to death. His defense was that he was...

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