COMMONWEALTH v. CHAPPELL

No. SJC-11687.

473 Mass. 191 (2015)

COMMONWEALTH v. DESHAWN CHAPPELL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Neyman for the defendant.

Matthew T. Sears , Assistant District Attorney ( Edmund J. Zabin , Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

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


On January 20, 2011, Stephanie Moulton, a residential counsellor at a mental health facility in Revere, was killed while she was at work. The defendant, a resident of the facility, was charged with her murder. Principally at issue at the defendant's subsequent jury trial was his mental state at the time of the killing; the defendant...

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