COMMONWEALTH v. GOITIA

No. SJC-11572.

480 Mass. 763 (2018)

COMMONWEALTH, v. EDWIN GOITIA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

October 18, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore F. Riordan ( Deborah Bates Riordan also present) for the defendant.

Bethany C. Lynch , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


Just after 10 P.M. on July 29, 2009, six month old Naiden Goitia (child) was pronounced dead at a hospital in Holyoke. The defendant, Edwin Goitia, was indicted for his murder. A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on the theory of extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 The...

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