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COMMONWEALTH v. ODGREN

SJC-11573.

483 Mass. 41 (2019)

COMMONWEALTH v. JOHN ODGREN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

September 4, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia L. Garin (Jonathan Shapiro also present) for the defendant.

Marguerite T. Grant, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Merritt Schnipper & Robert F. Hennessy, for youth advocacy division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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

A jury convicted the defendant, John Odgren, of murder in the first degree on theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty in the stabbing death of a schoolmate. At trial, the defendant conceded that he had killed the victim and asserted that he lacked criminal responsibility because at the time of the stabbing...

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