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COMMONWEALTH v. RAKES

SJC-10046.

478 Mass. 22 (2017)

COMMONWEALTH v. JAMES M. RAKES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

September 29, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Jay Black for the defendant.

Tracey A. Cusick , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, BUDD, & CYPHER, JJ.

In the summer of 1987, Jay B. Schlosser and his girl friend, Heather Buchannan, were shot and killed in the Westwood home they shared with John D. Sweeney. In 2005, the defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury as a joint venturer on two counts of murder in the first degree on the theories of felony murder, deliberate premeditation...

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