COMMONWEALTH v. ODGREN

SJC-11573.

483 Mass. 41 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN ODGREN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

September 4, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia L. Garin ( Jonathan Shapiro also present) for the defendant.

Marguerite T. Grant , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Merritt Schnipper & Robert F. Hennessy , for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


A jury convicted the defendant, John Odgren, of murder in the first degree on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty in the stabbing death of a schoolmate. At trial, the defendant conceded that he had killed the victim and asserted that he lacked criminal responsibility because at the time of the stabbing...

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