Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Ferguson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 1, 1997PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtAbrams, J.
After trial by jury, Richard D. Ferguson was convicted of murder in the first degree of his wife, Helen Ferguson, by reason of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. On appeal, the defendant argues that the trial judge erred in refusing to dismiss the jury foreman, who indicated during the trial that he recognized a Commonwealth witness as having baby-sat for his children approximately twenty-seven years earlier. The defendant also argues that the judge erred in allowing the Commonwealth to call a rebuttal witness whose testimony, the defendant alleges, served only *350to…
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