Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Entwistle
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 14, 2012PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGants, J.
On the evening of Sunday, January 22, 2006, the defendant’s wife and their nine month old daughter were found dead in a bed in the master bedroom of their home in Hopkinton. His wife had been shot once in the forehead; his daughter had been shot in the abdomen from close range while cradled in her mother’s arms, and the bullet had exited the daughter and entered her mother’s breast. The defendant, a British citizen, was charged with their murders and extradited from the United Kingdom, where he had traveled early in the morning of Saturday, January 21. A Superior Court jury convicted the…
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