Commonwealth v. Hamel

Indictments by a Middlesex grand jury charged the defendant, Jerry Hamel, with the statutory crime of attempted murder of four named individuals, G. L. c. 274, § 6,1 and with the common-law crime of soliciting others to commit those *251murders. A jury found the defendant guilty of all the charges.2 Upon the defendant’s appeal, we reverse the judgments of conviction of attempted murder for error in denying the defendant’s motions for required findings of not guilty. We affirm the judgments of conviction of solicitation.

1. Evidence in detail. In May, 1996, the defendant was an inmate at the…