COMMONWEALTH v. COLTON

SJC-08772.

477 Mass. 1 (2017)

COMMONWEALTH v. NICHOLAS R. COLTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 4, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Traft for the defendant.

Casey E. Silvia , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, HINES, & GAZIANO, JJ.


In December, 2000, the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree on theories of extreme atrocity or cruelty and deliberate premeditation in the August, 1998, stabbing death of his cousin, Robert McDonald. At the time of the killing, the defendant was twenty-one years old. On appeal, the defendant argues that a statement he made...

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