COMMONWEALTH v. TAVARES

SJC-12631.

484 Mass. 650 (2020)

COMMONWEALTH, v. DANIEL TAVARES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

May 6, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mary E. Lee , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


In December 2015, a jury convicted the defendant, Daniel Tavares, of murder in the first degree on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty, for the 1988 stabbing death of Gayle Botelho. The judge sentenced the defendant to life in prison.1 On appeal, the defendant seeks reversal...

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