Legal Opinion
Costa v. Hall
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 8, 2012No. 11-1025PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
Louis Costa is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole for the first-degree murders of two men in 1986 in Boston’s North End. One of the victims was shot sixteen times, the other seven, at close range. Three defendants were charged and the ballistics evidence indicated that three guns were used.
Costa was sixteen years old at the time, but after a hearing in juvenile court, he was transferred to Massachusetts Superior Court for adult criminal proceedings, based on separate findings that there was probable cause to believe he had committed the murders and that…
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