State v. Marrapese

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This case comes before us on the defendant’s appeal from a judgment of conviction of murder in the first degree arising out of the killing of Richard Callei in 1975. On April 4, 1988, the defendant was sentenced to the mandatory penalty of life imprisonment. We affirm. The facts of the case insofar as they are pertinent to this appeal are as follows.

On March 15, 1975, the body of Richard Callei was discovered by an officer of the Rehoboth, Massachusetts, police department buried approximately five feet below the surface in a wooded area of that town near a section…