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COMMONWEALTH v. GOITIA

No. SJC-11572.

480 Mass. 763 (2018)

COMMONWEALTH, v. EDWIN GOITIA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

October 18, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore F. Riordan (Deborah Bates Riordan also present) for the defendant.

Bethany C. Lynch, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: GANTS, C.J., GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, & KAFKER, JJ.

Just after 10 P.M. on July 29, 2009, six month old Naiden Goitia (child) was pronounced dead at a hospital in Holyoke. The defendant, Edwin Goitia, was indicted for his murder. A jury in the Superior Court convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on the theory of extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 The...

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