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COMMONWEALTH v. PELOQUIN

437 Mass. 204 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN J. PELOQUIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 21, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gail M. McKenna, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Deirdre Lee Thurber for the defendant.

Present (Sitting at Barnstable): MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

GREANEY, J.

In 1988, a jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the second degree (on an indictment charging murder in the first degree). The defendant's conviction was affirmed on direct appeal. Commonwealth v. Peloquin, 30 Mass.App.Ct. 960 (1991). In 1993, the defendant filed a pro se motion for a new trial. Counsel was appointed to represent him. The motion asserted that the defendant's trial counsel had provided him with ineffective...

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