Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Costa
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 9, 1990PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtNolan, J.
On October 8, 1987, the defendant, Kevin Costa, was indicted for murder and kidnapping. The defendant was tried before a jury, the jury found him guilty of kidnapping and murder in the first degree on the theories of deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty. The defendant received the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for the murder conviction and from eight to ten years for the kidnapping conviction, the sentences to be served concurrently.
On appeal, the defendant contends that there was insufficient evidence as a matter of law to support the conviction of murder in the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Commonwealth v. LatimoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. SaferianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Commonwealth v. SoaresMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
- Commonwealth v. CasaleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Commonwealth v. KelleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Commonwealth v. CohenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
- Commonwealth v. CostaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1993
- Commonwealth v. MirandaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
- Commonwealth v. FrankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2001
- Commonwealth v. SabettiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1992
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