COMMONWEALTH v. CADET

No. SJC-10505.

473 Mass. 173 (2015)

COMMONWEALTH v. PIERRE P. CADET.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

November 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Doyle for the defendant.

Mary Lee , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


In May, 2007, the defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury of murder in the first degree on the theory of extreme atrocity or cruelty in the stabbing death of his girl friend, Betina Francois. At trial, the defendant did not contest that he had stabbed the victim, but argued that he had done so in self-defense, after she became...

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