COMMONWEALTH v. DIAZ


422 Mass. 269 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH vs. IRAN DIAZ.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

March 13, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Traft for the defendant.

Judy Zeprun Kalman, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree of two men and given consecutive terms of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He was also convicted of unlawfully carrying a firearm. The evidence indicated that the defendant had sold drugs as part of a drug operation in Holyoke headed by Pedro Ramos and had participated in the killings to avenge wrongs to Ramos or his enterprise thought to have been committed by the victims. The...

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