Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Beneche
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 20, 2010No. SJC-10292PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
On May 23, 2004, the police found the body of Kayla Ravenell in the Great Pond Reservoir in Braintree. The body of her two year old son was found the following morning; he had been suffocated to death, put in a trash bag, and then thrown out a window. The defendant, Jims Beneche, who was Ravenell’s former boy friend and the father of the two year old, was indicted for the murders, as was his then current girl friend, Jessica Deane. Beneche was tried separately, and a Superior Court jury found him guilty as a joint venturer of murder in the first degree on both indictments, on theories of…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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- Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Doyle v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by31 opinions
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