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COMMONWEALTH v. SCOGGINS

439 Mass. 571 (2003)

COMMONWEALTH v. ALLEN SCOGGINS.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

June 18, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey L. Baler for the defendant.

Kelly-Anne DeFao, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

COWIN, J.

In the early morning hours of May 16, 1997, Ishmael Lopez Rivera, a taxicab driver, was murdered in Brockton. The defendant, Allen Scoggins, was indicted for the murder. A jury in the Superior Court convicted Scoggins of murder in the first degree on the theories of deliberate premeditation and felony-murder (the underlying felony being attempted commission of an armed robbery). Represented by new counsel on appeal...

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