COMMONWEALTH v. LEIVA

SJC-12166.

484 Mass. 766 (2020)

COMMONWEALTH v. JULIO BRIAN LEIVA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

June 9, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Paul Maidman for the defendant.

David L. Sheppard-Brick , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

David Rassoul Rangaviz , Committee for Public Counsel Services, K. Neil Austin , & Michael Hoven , for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


A Hampden County jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on theories of deliberate premeditation, extreme atrocity or cruelty, and felony-murder with attempted armed robbery as the predicate felony, in connection with the shooting death of William Serrano. The victim was shot seven times at close range, as he sat smoking...

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