Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Fickling
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 20, 2001PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCordy, J.
A jury convicted the defendant, Paul Lashawn Pickling, of murder in the first degree of both his infant daughter and her mother, by reason of extreme atrocity or cruelty. On appeal, the defendant claims that the judge erred in denying his motion for a required finding of not guilty on the indictment charging him with the murder of his daughter when only a *10manslaughter charge was merited by the evidence. He also argues that the trial judge erred in admitting evidence of prior violent incidents between the defendant and the child’s mother occurring as long as fifteen months before their deaths,…
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