COMMONWEALTH v. LUGO

SJC-12546.

482 Mass. 94 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH v. NATHAN LUGO.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

April 24, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine C. Essington for the defendant.

Stephanie Martin Glennon , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Marsha L. Levick , Karen U. Lindell , & Riya Saha Shah , of Pennsylvania, & Laura Chrismer Edmonds for Juvenile Law Center & others.

Nicholas K. Mitrokostas , Eric T. Romeo , & Jaime A. Santos for Louis D. Brown Peace Institute & others.

Meredith Shih for Boston Bar Association.

Elizabeth Doherty for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services & others.

John P. Zanini , Assistant District Attorney, for District Attorney for the Berkshire District & others.

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


In November 2011, the victim, Kyle McManus, was murdered after a plan to rob him of marijuana failed. A jury convicted the defendant, Nathan Lugo, of murder in the second degree.1 The defendant, who was seventeen years old at the time of the murder, was sentenced to the mandatory term of life imprisonment...

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