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COMMONWEALTH v. MEJIA

SJC-10704.

461 Mass. 384 (2012)

COMMONWEALTH v. JUAN MEJIA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

January 24, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janet H. Pumphrey for the defendant.

Jane Davidson Montori, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, BOTSFORD, GANTS, & DUFFLY, JJ.

IRELAND, C.J.

The defendant was convicted on three indictments charging murder in the first degree of the victims, a mother and her two daughters, on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. On appeal, the defendant argues that the judge erred in allowing the Commonwealth to present evidence of the defendant's demeanor, in denying his motion for a required finding of not guilty, and in denying...

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