COMMONWEALTH v. KEOWN

SJC-10593.

478 Mass. 232 (2017)

COMMONWEALTH v. JAMES KEOWN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

October 23, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia L. Bolgen for the defendant.

Jamie M. Charles , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Eoghan Casey, pro se, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Gregory T. Nojeim , of the District of Columbia, & Andrew Crocker & Stephanie Lacambra , of California, & Donald S. Bronstein , Committee for Public Counsel Services, & Chauncey B. Wood , Matthew R. Segal , Jessie J. Rossman , Alexis L. Shapiro , & Margaret L. Sullivan , for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


The jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on a theory of deliberate premeditation for poisoning his wife, Julie Keown. On appeal, the defendant argues that (1) the trial judge erred in denying a motion to suppress certain computer evidence because the warrant used to obtain the evidence was defective; (2) the trial...

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