Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Mejia
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 21, 2012PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDuffly, J.
On the morning of June 11, 2005, the body of Lourdes Hernandez was discovered inside the retail gasoline station and convenience store (mini-mart) where she was employed as a cashier. Hernandez had been stabbed multiple times, and approximately $2,300 was missing from the store. The defendant, who months earlier had been fired from his job at the mini-mart, was convicted of murder in the first degree, G. L. c. 265, § 1, on theories of felony-murder and extreme atrocity or cruelty, and of armed robbery, G. L. c. 265, § 17.1 The defendant claims on appeal that inappropriate statements made in…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Commonwealth v. RaymondMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1997
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