COMMONWEALTH v. LOPES

No. SJC-11587.

478 Mass. 593 (2018)

COMMONWEALTH v. CRISOSTOMO LOPES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 10, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Jay Black for the defendant.

Janis DiLoreto Smith , Assistant District Attorney ( Patrick M. Haggan , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, BUDD, & KAFKER, JJ.


The defendant, Crisostomo Lopes, pulled the fourteen year old victim off a motorized scooter and held him, while the codefendant, a juvenile, shot him multiple times at close range. The victim succumbed to a gunshot wound to his chest shortly thereafter. After a jury trial, both the defendant and his codefendant were convicted of murder...

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