COMMONWEALTH v. STEEVES

SJC-12981.

490 Mass. 270 (2022)

COMMONWEALTH v. DOUGLAS STEEVES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

July 18, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Paul Maidman for the defendant.

Emily R. Mello , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

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


The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree, on a theory of deliberate premeditation.1 The conviction arose from the defendant's admitted strangulation of his estranged wife, which the defendant contended occurred under mitigating circumstances of reasonable provocation or sudden combat during...

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