COMMONWEALTH v. WITKOWSKI

SJC-12717.

487 Mass. 675 (2021)

COMMONWEALTH v. JAMES WITKOWSKI.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 18, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore F. Riordan for the defendant.

Cailin M. Campbell , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Lowy, Wendlandt, & Georges, JJ.


In 2017, the defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, on a theory of felony-murder, with aggravated rape as the predicate felony. The victim, Lena Bruce, was found dead in her Boston apartment in 1992; the case went unsolved until the defendant became a suspect in 2015 on the...

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