COMMONWEALTH v. GARCIA

No. SJC-11423.

482 Mass. 408 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH, v. JESUS GARCIA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

June 7, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Jay Black for the defendant.

Katherine E. McMahon , Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Ryan M. Schiff & David Rossman, for Omar Abdur-Rahim & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

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


A jury convicted the defendant of murder in the first degree on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty.1 The judge sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on the murder conviction.2

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