COMMONWEALTH v. JAMES

SJC-12196.

477 Mass. 549 (2017)

COMMONWEALTH v. STEVEN JAMES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 1, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rosemary Curran Scapicchio ( Dennis M. Toomey also present) for the defendant.

Mary E. Lee , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, HINES, LOWY, & BUDD, JJ.


The narrow question before us, here on a reservation and report from a single justice of the county court, is whether a juvenile who has been convicted of murder in the first degree, and whose conviction has been affirmed by this court after plenary review, is thereafter subject to the gatekeeper provision of G. L. c. 278, § 33E....

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