COMMONWEALTH v. DELVALLE


443 Mass. 782 (2005)

COMMONWEALTH v. DIONICIO DELVALLE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 1, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Esther J. Horwich for the defendant.

Anne M. Thomas, Assistant District Attorney (Joshua Wall, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

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


GREANEY, J.

A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree by reasons of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The victim was an eighty-seven year old woman who was brutally beaten and strangled during a break-in at her home. Represented by new counsel, the defendant appeals, claiming that (1) the representation provided by his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective; (2) several evidentiary errors were...

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