COMMONWEALTH v. ARRINGTON

SJC-13499.

493 Mass. 478 (2024)

COMMONWEALTH v. VICTOR ARRINGTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 20, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ian MacLean , Assistant District Attorney ( Edmond J. Zabin , Assistant District Attorney, also present) for the Commonwealth.

Michelle Menken ( E. Peter Parker also present) for the respondent.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Jessica Hyde & Eoghan Casey, pro se.

Patrick Levin, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Dan Loper, Karl Epps, & Steven Verronneau, pro se.

Jennifer Stisa Granick & Andrew Crocker, of California, Michael W. Price & Hannah Zhao, of New York, Jessica J. Lewis, Jessie J. Rossman, Daniel K. Gelb, Nathan Freed Wessler, & Chauncey B. Wood for American Civil Liberties Union & others.

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


The Commonwealth alleges that in March of 2015, the defendant, Victor Arrington, and two others broke into a home, killed one resident, grievously wounded another, and attempted to set fire to the home.2 Prosecuting the defendant for murder in the first degree and other crimes related to the home invasion...

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