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COMMONWEALTH v. MAHDI

388 Mass. 679 (1983)

448 N.E.2d 357

COMMONWEALTH vs. ABDUL J. MAHDI. ABDUL J. MAHDI, petitioner.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

April 8, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Johnston (Robert D. Keefe & Christopher Weld, Jr., with him) for the defendant.

Dianne M. Dillon, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

On May 28, 1968, the defendant, Abdul J. Mahdi,1 was found guilty by a jury of the crimes of murder in the first degree, assault with intent to murder by means of a dangerous weapon, and two counts of armed robbery.2 He was sentenced to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole for life imprisonment on the murder conviction, for eighteen to twenty years on the assault conviction, and...

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