Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Kolenovic
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 23, 2015No. SJC 08047PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
On February 2, 1999, a jury convicted the defendant, Enez Kolenovic, of murder in the first degree on the theory of extreme atrocity or cruelty. The defendant’s conviction stems from the stabbing death of David Walker (victim) during the early morning hours of September 16, 1996, following an altercation between the two in a bar. While the defendant’s appeal to this court was pending, he filed a motion for a new trial arguing ineffective assistance of counsel and error in the jury instructions. We remanded the motion to the Superior Court. The judge, who had been the trial judge, granted the…
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