COMMONWEALTH v. FRANCIS

SJC-12683.

485 Mass. 86 (2020)

COMMONWEALTH v. KEVIN FRANCIS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amy M. Belger ( Ira L. Gant , Committee for Public Counsel Services, also present) for the defendant.

Dara Z. Kesselheim , Assistant District Attorney ( Craig Iannini , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

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


The defendant, Kevin Francis, was convicted of murder in the first degree in 1982. This is the defendant's appeal, pursuant to G. L. c. 278, § 33E, from the denial of his second motion for a new trial. The victim, who was the defendant's former girlfriend, had been stabbed multiple times in the chest and skull. The defendant had...

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