COMMONWEALTH v. KOSTKA

SJC-12381.

489 Mass. 399 (2022)

COMMONWEALTH v. TIMOTHY KOSTKA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 31, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dana Alan Curhan for the defendant.

Ian MacLean , Assistant District Attorney ( Ursula A. Knight , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Present: Budd, C.J., Gaziano, Cypher, Kafker, & Georges, JJ.


This case arises from the April 16, 2012 stabbing death of sixty-seven year old Barbara Coyne in the bedroom of her first-floor apartment in a three-family house in the South Boston section of Boston. On October 9, 2015, a jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree and home invasion in connection with Coyne's death.<...

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